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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hysteria on both sides is so overblown.  LAMB should be able to integrate a handful of new students in grades past PK4, but probably not all later grades.  Certainly K.  It's not going to break the school that's ludicrous.  It makes people mad that LAMB doesn't backfill and ends up losing half the class because the unfilled spaces seem squandered.  And the fact that they add additional PK4 seats doesn't solve the problem because the K spots seem squandered to the parents in the K grade.  But also, obviously LAMB serves the public and does it well and isn't motivated by neferious reasons.  But the super restrictive entry years make people feel it's elitist and unnecessarily exclusive, and that's why they get upset.[/quote]

They are stupid for getting upset, because LAMB isn't losing half the class between PK4 and K or even PK4 and 1. You don't need to have class sizes that are exactly the same all the way up. The model of front-loading ECE to accommodate attrition is just a different way of structuring the school.[/quote]

I don't think they are stupid.  Some kids leave in K, and the parents are annoyed that somebody took a coveted spot and then left in K and there is nothing to be done about it.  It is a spot that their kid could have theoretically had (not likely but possible).  Filling with PK4 doesn't help the K parents.  Filling in K would at least make it better so that people don't use coveted spots just for preschool years and then leave for K.  Again, not a lot of people, but maybe some.  The point that it is no a lot of people really supports the argument that its not going to make a big difference for the school but could make a big difference for a couple kids.  [/quote]

As has been pointed out before, adding kids in K would mean entirely changing their curriculum where K kids are partnered with Pk3 kids. A big part of being a kindergartener is being a leader in the classroom. Kids filled in K would miss out on this and two years of Spanish. It means totally reworking the way the school is run. It would be a HUGE difference for a school and would make a less than 1% difference for other kids. [/quote]

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