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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Staffing runs numbers on a very regular basis at this point in the summer as we have kids enrolling and withdrawing right and left.  Last summer we got a new section of 4th grade added the Wednesday of Pre-Service week.  The poor first year teacher had a day to set up her room before Open House.  It was nuts.  I believe they're definitely looking at the numbers in all schools but the "acceptable" number of students in each classroom is just way too high.[/quote]

This happens at our Focus School almost yearly.

We get a huge rush of kids registering for K right before school starts.

Last year, we had a new K teacher hired right before th Open house.  Two days prior.  She was fantastic but she had a day to get organized.

They shouldn’t need to cut things so close.  [/quote]

I work at a Focus school too.  It never fails that people start coming out of the wood work at the last minute to enroll their kindergarten students. I can't think of a year that we haven't had a last minute addition to our staff due to this trend.[/quote]

Another focus school teacher here. This also happens at my school. Every spring when allocations come out based on enrollment at that point our K is in danger of losing a classroom. Then people start enrolling in August or even during the first week of school and it turns out we have enough K kids for an entirely new classroom. My principal is in the process of hiring a new K teacher now, so at least it will be before the year actually starts.  It also can have a domino effect on room assignments, especially when K or a grade level that departmentalizes is involved, since those classrooms have to be clustered together and the K students need the rooms with the bathrooms, so sometimes someone who has already spent time over the summer prepping their classroom has to take it all down and move it to a new room a few days before school starts. [/quote]

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