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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brent  & Maury have 2 classes per grade, I think.  LT is the same.  Watkins had 5, and is artificially down to 4.  Size matters.[/quote]

yes -- size does matter.  Peabody is turning away IB families for PK3 despite having more IB seats than any other DCPS ECE.  If Watkins can better retain those families it is sized appropriately.  "Artificially down to 4" makes no sense.  Unless class sizes have swollen, there are less children at Watkins than previously.  I don't have numbers, but it's supposedly 10% smaller than 2013 (~550)[/quote]

Not really. There are 61 spots and 39 on the wait list. Those are 3 year olds. Realistically there will be about 3 classes worth of IB kids by the time they hit 1st grade. Lots of people will move, get into a charter or go private. Watkins should drop down to 3 classes and build some IB grades to encourage more IB families to give it a try. [/quote]

PP has the best wisdom I've seen yet with the three-class jump start idea, and that was also expressed in the Dump the Cluster thread.  You all should consider safety too, and see what's been done in that area and know how many times the police were called to the school,  and why for 2014-2015 - don't assume that the police couldn't possibly need to go to an elementary school.  Get the security officer incident reports too. Use FOIA.[/quote]

Deja vu, all over again.   :cry: [/quote]

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