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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^Agree 100% with both PPs above.  If you love Young, you'll love Brent (if and only if).

Shutting out the majority of in-boundary families for both PreK3 and PreK4 (which Brent will succeed in doing next year if another ECE class isn't added) obviously doesn't bode well for community cohesion or, by extension, fund-raising in the long term.

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Ok, really?  Those of you shut out for PK3/4 are really going to turn down a [b]great school [/b]you are guaranteed entry for kindergarten?  That'll show Brent!  Isn't that a perfect example of the old adage "cutting off your nose to spite your face"?  And, my family doesn't love Young (he's fine), but we do love Brent![/quote]

After havnig been shut out for the past 2 school years, landing at another DCPS program, I'm not going with "great" for Brent, no matter what I find there for K.  I'm OK with good, or adequate, but great's pushing it.  I'll give to the PTA, but probably not as generously as I would have if the school had reached out to me and the other shut-out parents at any point along the way.

I don't think I received a single note from Brent until I was invited to a rising K play date several weeks back.

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Huh?  No notes from Brent?  (Who gets notes from a school you are not even attending?)  You will show Brent when you don't contribute when your child attends?  It cannot be a great school because your child did not get to go there for preschool?  Okaaaay.  Actually it is amusing because all these up in arms shut out PK folks will soon be singing kumbaya once they are in. It is that good![/quote]

Come on people, Brent could reach out to the many shut-out families, e.g. making a point of inviting them to this or that once in a while, emailing them links to Tues News, inviting them to the odd playground play date.  The PTA Board has already talked about doing it.  When those who lotteried into PreK3 trivialize the concerns of those who didn't, and almost certainly won't for PreK4 either, the community cohesion issue comes to mind.[/quote]

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