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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hearst did not offer any lottery spots, so I'm not sure why there is even a question that they would offer any spots off the waitlist unless there are fewer than 20 students in a class in September, correct?[/quote]

I don't think the magic number is 20 but rather 22 or 23 in early elementary.   Janney in recent years has filled to 22/23 with OOB (current second grade would have been 20/class in K but they added OOB to make K classes of 22-24).[/quote]

Do you have access to research that the experts have not read?  Or, are you just spitballing it?

"The research has shown definitively that classes of under 20 students, in kindergarten through third grade, have all kinds of advantages. They increase the - both the academic and social engagement of students, and they increase learning. That's especially true for students at risk - that is, minority students from low-income homes, and students for whom English is a second language. In small classes, students' behavior changes even more than does teacher behavior."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113176988
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I'm not saying that it's the GOOD or RIGHT thing to do, just that it's how DCPS thinks and what they do year after year.  They fill classes to 22/23 students.  Good luck changing it.  Why should Hearst students have a ratio that DCPS doesn't enforce at Janney, Lafayette, Murch, etc?  DCPS always fills early elementary classes up to 22/23 with OOB kids.  [/quote]

It's way worse in the burbs.[/quote]

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