Anonymous wrote:It is true! MV is adding classrooms for Pk3/4, only during this year to offset budget cuts. An email was sent to families today regarding this restructure.

Growing to "offset budget cuts" and not for the mission of the school just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

It is true! MV is adding classrooms for Pk3/4, only during this year to offset budget cuts. An email was sent to families today regarding this restructure.

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Anonymous wrote:We were just called off the wait list for K and was able to our younger child in for Pk3 (who was not matched or waitlisted because he was matched with a higher ranking school)

What number were you for K? Just trying to see where the list is up to.

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Anonymous wrote:And I already thought MV was growing too fast too soon. This is a recipe for disaster IMO. Concerns me that they couldn't budget for new construction without adding last minute classes. Does not look good on the admins part.

Lots of assumptions in this post.... growing too fast for whom? We go to the school, we are new this year and could not have been happier with this growth year. All the naysayers about quality of program in last years expansion year did not prevent this from being a fantastic year for mine or several other new kids. Also the need for new classes was based on unexpected and unprecedented citywide shortfall from Bowsers school budget and lack of typical increase per student as has happened every year before, not on bad budgeting skills. I suppose it likely to assume to worst without all the information but people people sure do love to pop mess without much knowledge of the truth....

How many classes are there in kindergarten and upper grades MV?

Anonymous wrote:We were just called off the wait list for K and was able to our younger child in for Pk3 (who was not matched or waitlisted because he was matched with a higher ranking school)

What number were you for K? Just trying to see where the list is up to.

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

How many spots did they add of each? How many classes will there be? Thanks for this info.

instead of 88 pk3/4 students there will now be 132. classes are 2/3 pk4 and 1/3 pk3. 6 instead of 4 classes. this means big admission year for pk this year but smaller admissions the year after for Pk4 and K due to expansion of class size this year.

Wow, that is a LOT of little kids.

And I already thought MV was growing too fast too soon. This is a recipe for disaster IMO. Concerns me that they couldn't budget for new construction without adding last minute classes. Does not look good on the admins part.

Congrats to everyone. We are new this year and just feel so lucky to be at the school.

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Anonymous wrote:We were just called off the wait list for K and was able to our younger child in for Pk3 (who was not matched or waitlisted because he was matched with a higher ranking school)

So are you sending them both? Or just the older one?

Both

Anonymous wrote:I'm having a hard time following the thread. Has anyone been called for pk3?

We were just called for PK3 - #13 on WL - so it seems this list is moving more than anticipated (when we looked at the school last winter they said every seat would go to siblings).

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

You can't just "add classes" without the PCSB approval.

Unless their charter already allowed for the increased number of students.

I'm having a hard time following the thread. Has anyone been called for pk3?

Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

You can't just "add classes" without the PCSB approval.

Anonymous wrote:We were just called off the wait list for K and was able to our younger child in for Pk3 (who was not matched or waitlisted because he was matched with a higher ranking school)

So are you sending them both? Or just the older one?