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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I hope you're right that they can find another way.  My only point was that it is easy to sign petitions and demand the moon, but you have to fund the research and the rocket to get there.  I'd hate for the school board to give in to the loudest voices and make a bad policy choice.  I agree that the middle gets lost (frankly, I have a kid at the middle to the top of a non-AAP class and my child is not at all challenged much of the time because our school has a lot of ESOL kids who need the attention and I agree that kids who need the extra attention should get it even at the expense of my own child, who I enrich on the side).[/quote]

Oh I agree with you on it's easy to make the demand and we don't want bad policy just to respond to the squeakiest wheels!  What I'm hoping is that leaders won't see the petition as asking for the moon, really, since it's not asking for small, small classes, it just wants to prevent the huge ones.
And that in terms of the process, how I see it working well is that the "demand" for caps alerts leaders that there is a serious issue, and then the policy response from leaders will not be just blindly giving in to the demand of caps, but will actually be something more nuanced, flexible and cost-effective - but high-quality, too.  After all that part is [u]their[/u] job - to craft the policy!  Parents who have made their voices heard by signing the petition, speaking at the listening tours, testifying, and forwarding their many ideas and thoughts to leaders, have done their part.  Now it's time for the leaders to thoughtfully and wisely respond! :)[/quote]

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