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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my understanding, they were going to fill those seats in K during SY17-18; now they are filling them a year early, in PK, which makes sense from an immersion standpoint. What I don't totally understand is how the teacher-hiring process will work. Do you hire 4 extra teachers for the additional 2 PK classes in SY 15-16, then move those teachers to K the next year? Or just hire those teachers for a single year since K already has 4 teams of teachers and fellows. Anyway, I think the move makes a lot of sense even if it was done out of financial necessity. On another subject, why aren't more of us talking about how horrible Muriel Bowser is for screwing over so many kids? A similar scramble to deal with a reduced budget is occurring at our IB DCPS as well. [/quote]

The general that they have been following (which is still in flux as seen in the upper grade changes) calls for smaller pre-3 and pk-4 classes with an influx in both pk-4 and k.  They had a choice as to how they would fill the available spots for next year, and they chose to fill these in early.

As for teacher hiring, very few of the MV teachers have traditionally remained in the same grade for every year.  In fact, the model that they have chosen has the teachers rolling with the students for a couple grades at a time so that they lose the transition period in the beginning of the year.  This is one reason that they now have combined pre-3/pk-4 classes.  Because of the growth, that has only happened in a few instances, but unless things have changed, it remains a goal to roll the teachers with the students whenever possible (and, when it makes sense; for instance, 2 of the 3 pk-4 teachers rolled with the students a couple years ago, but the third didn't because he really specialized in the younger kids enough to make sense for him to remain).  Thus, I don't think that it will change their hiring process at all.

Preach.[/quote]

Thanks for this! I would be so thrilled if we somehow got the same teacher next year. Do they tend to keep cohorts of kids together as well? My DD is in K so I am thinking about transition to 1st.[/quote]

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