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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So in the absence of the accreditation, is there a commitment by the principal to keep PK and K capped at 20 students?   That is the key question.[/quote]

+1. Another test for the principal.   Based on the lack of engagement and communication of PS3 at Hearst, people should not be confident.  [/quote]

EVERY DCPS school has to keep PK4 at no more than 20.  It is not a test for the principal at all.  As for K, you cannot have it both ways.  If IB families want to come, the school cannot, should not, and doesn't want to refuse them.  But doing so, means that the numbers have to go up, just like they do at Janney, Murch, etc..

I just don't get this poster.  What did the principal do to you?  Or I can believe that you are incredibly disappointed that you didn't get PK3 and have to pay another year of daycare, but don't take that out on the school.[/quote]

You don't get it?  Current and future Hearst parents don't want overcrowded K classrooms (i.e. greater than 20) because the principal let's in too many OOB students.  What's difficult about understanding that?  Janney and Murch have overcrowded classrooms because of an explosion of IB families, but it has been that way for years and that is what the parents signed up for.   Don't use the unique circumstances of Janney and Murch to justify an absurd result at Hearst.[/quote]

I don't think there could be an explosion of IB families at Hearst simply because the boundary of Hearst includes a good bit of commercially zoned street frontage where as Murch and Janney have both a larger area and/or large apartment buildings.
If there are 2 PK4 classes and there are not enough IB families to fill them they will fill them with OBB families. The only way to buffer this is to have one PK4 class.[/quote]

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