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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The major issue has to be that Murch had k classes this year as small as 16. Oops! But last year they were as large as 27 (you try hiring a fifth teacher in September). With volatile IB enrollment because of apartments and embassies, OOB enrollment is the only way to plan ahead.[/quote]

But why not just wait until September and take kids from the wait list to fill up any under-enrolled classes?  [/quote]

That would be rational.  And we don't do rational in DCPS.

I think it's more an issue of money (you project a certain budget, and you need to have the enrollment match to keep the money), politics, and the major-do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-into-Deal/Wilson-card.  At some point, the calculus will change, and people will prefer to go to some school other than Murch, because it will be so large, it will no longer be able to offer the kind of quality that drew everyone to it in the first place.  Hearst is a fine school - I would start betting on its overtaking Murch in popularity in the new few years.[/quote]

And watch as Heast gets more crowded.  Hearst's enrollment has steadily hovered over 80% OOB but rather than adjust the size of the school, they had trailers and then renovated for a larger enrollment school.  As IB enrollment goes up I woukd be shocked if DCPS throttles back OOB slots much at all, even if it means that enrollment is soon too large for a newly expanded facilty.

I think that Janney has been able to escape this ratchet because it traditionally had only a few OOB slots, but if there were more of an OOB expectation there, DCPS woukd be doing everything possible not to reduce those slots[/quote]

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