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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP you are asking the question of but... ATS has room for trailers on its campus to take on more students. It won't interfere with the helipad space, either. And I respectfully disagree that ATS has felt the crunch 'like everyone else'. ATS can control the numbers. [b]Other schools might learn in August that they have another 50-100 kids to accomodate. [/b]Tell me where ATS experiences that? Oh right - they don't. They have the luxury of planning where kids go. [/quote]

they *might* but which ones actually did? also ATS has 24 kids in every classroom... do these *other schools* reach the student cap for every classroom? i believe one of the things the Nottingham parents bragged about was they're classroom size was always kept low even when they're *overcrowded* back in the days, some K classes only [b]had 17 or 19 - [/b]that's like Title I school level.[/quote]

That's better than most Title 1 schools, which are just one under max capacity.

Now that Claremont is countywide and doesn't HAVE to take neighborhood kids from multiple neighborhood zones, their enrollment will be capped as well. That was the problem with Claremont--they had a lot of kids guaranteed to get in based on the old policy. They became crowded just like other neighborhood schools, except they were promised to multiple neighborhoods, simply more kids than possible.

Neighborhood boundaries need to be adjusted on a more equitable basis. But option schools have to have capped enrollment; there is no other way to manage the lottery system. Also, some schools have particular features as part of their system that make adding additional teachers or classrooms at the last minute impossible (for instance, I understand it's more difficult to find teachers certified to teach Montessori and Immersion, and that Campbell has looping classes so you need the same number of K-1 classes and can't have a "bubble" year where they take an additional classroom of students). And ATS would have a limit on the number of trailers it can fit.

What happened to McKinley is terrible and is a situation that should be avoided, not repeated in the interest of making every school suffer.

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