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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All ward 3 parents are reading this thread, amused.[/quote]

Agree with this and the previous poster!

At our Ward 3 school, due to the overcrowding, parents worked with the administration to open a 4th classroom for a grade that had ballooned in size (and hand numerous kids with challenging needs to be met.) So very possible to partner with administration to then present arguments to systems higher ups.[/quote]

Um, that is helpful advice but there are no actual classrooms to expand into. That is the problem.[/quote]

This exactly.  I wouldn’t say anyone has a “burning desire” to scale back ECE at Brent.  But more space is needed in the near to medium term, and there is no more room in the building, there are no near term plans for modernization and there is little to no room for additional trailers.  So people are looking for creative solutions and scaling back ECE in favor of compulsory grades is one such idea.  Parent leaders are definitely open to other ideas — but just talking about cutting OOB waitlist offers is not sufficient to deal with the space problem. [/quote]

Scaling back ECE is EXACTLY what Ward 3 schools have done. They have never had PK3 and many have only 1 or 2 classes of PK 4 that has far fewer seats available than can meet demand. That is what you do when you run out of space because your now middle and upper class populations have increased. [/quote]

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