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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, now you conform you are a bit looney. XDay and Stoddert are the extra curriculars you are talking about? And the specials teachers having trouble remembering names?  Come on OP, those are really random "stressors" to focus on. I think most telling is your community concern. You are a K family and are having trouble meeting people. You haven't mentioned one stressor which affects your child. I can promise you the specials teachers (most of whom have been there a number of years. Geography teacher is new only because the previous one couldn't renew her visa renewed another time) don't share your concern. XDay has always had a limit on the number of kids it can take in pk and k. It is limited by staff to kid ratio dictated by law. Even when the school was smaller there were limits and people didn't get in. Stoddert-- do I really need to address this? Better yet, please find me a child who was denied playing Stoddert because their school let in a limited number of OOB students in the lottery.

You will meet people as your kid continues at Murch. Why not offer to host the class potluck in the fall? How about volunteer to be a room parent? Why not volunteer to sell pizza before a school event? Have you attended a principal coffee in the playground? I am sure you went to all the HSA meetings, did you introduce yourself to Martha or Maggie? They are really great at welcoming new families and immediately getting them involved with the school and other parents. [/quote]

Exactly. There are plenty of opportunities to meet people and get involved. You don't seem like a shrinking violet, OP. And you clearly have strong opinions. Get involved.

(And as for the specials teachers, there's one who will never remember all of the kids names, no matter how many she has. She just calls them all "sweetie," even the ones she's had since she started teaching at Murch. But that's a different issue.)[/quote]

OP again (seems like I'm a glutton for punishment.)  Putting aside PP's infantile name calling, I know of many other parents who share my concerns and who have provided me with the examples included in my previous posts.  These are parents who I've met and become friends with this year, by the way, so thanks for the advice to become more involved.  I've attended HSA meetings, hosted get-togethers, volunteered in the classroom and at the auction, chaperoned fieldtrips, etc., and have met a lot of nice people, but that's beside the point.  The fact is a bigger school does stretch the overall resources and sense of a tight-knit community, it just does.  Do you think a school that's 900 kids feels the same as a school with 350?  Of course it doesn't.  Friends of mine who have kids at Key or Mann or other smaller schools talk about how they know almost every kid in K.  I can't even imagine that at a school the size of Murch.  And before the pro-Murch boosters sharpen their talons, I like Murch.  I support the school.  I donate my $ and my time.  My kid is happy there, and I think it's a nice community.  It's not a personal attack against you, your family, your kid, or the school to question the approach of accepting more OOB kids when the school is already so overcrowded.  I also think it's interesting that the nasty PPs still haven't addressed my main point -- that it undercuts our complaining about an overcrowded school when we add 10% of our student population from OOB.  And, I'll reiterate, I would be very upset I if lived in a part of the Murch district that has been redrawn.  [/quote]

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