Anonymous wrote:For more inclusive social justice we need to drop enrollment caps in our more privileged public schools.

Actually, we need to improve more schools in other neighborhoods so every kid has a good neighborhood school that is not overcrowded rather than an overcrowded one they need to ride two buses to get to.

But social justice is not really your interest as much as figurative bomb-throwing is.

Look, I can assure everyone OOB kids and diversity are welcomed at Hearst and no one except the PP has an expectation of 20 kids per class. Families do have an expectation that measures be taken so that classes are not overcrowded. With more apartment housing coming to the school zone, I think the overcrowding will start to be from IB and not OOB alone. That is where DCPS needs to apply some foresight and that is exactly where they have a poor track record.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the 26:1 ratio is Hearst, as we have partner teachers through 2nd grade, and the upper grades aren’t that large.

Seems really unlikely. My child’s early elementary class there has 20 kids, one teacher, and a partner teacher.

PK4 is capped at 20. Come back and visit us when your kid is in 1st and has 25 classmates.

And there is a teacher and a dedicated aide.

Parents all have biases and agendas, so take their opinions with a grain of salt. So go ask one of the teachers, in private, how effectively they feel they can educate 25 or more kids in one class even with an aide. You will (should) be pretty shocked at what you here.

If you want smaller class sizes you will have to go private. No successful public school can guarantee small class sizes when people keep moving in-bounds. The buildings are at capacity and there is no where else to put the growing in-bounds population. This is not an OOB issue. Hearst didn’t even accept OOB this year except for one or two in a couple of grades.

In a school with only 2 classes per grade. When you add in one or two OOB lottery kids each year per grade. And the principal sprinkles in a few more under their discretion. It leads to overcrowding. Which is where the school is today. If it were only IB kids it would be about 20 per grade. Again, ask the teachers who see what’s going on.

The funny thing is that all these diversity warriors are largely EOTP white families who want to keep the OOB pipeline open. They use the minority kid straw man as a human shield to shame WOTP parents in order to hide their true motives.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the 26:1 ratio is Hearst, as we have partner teachers through 2nd grade, and the upper grades aren’t that large.

Seems really unlikely. My child’s early elementary class there has 20 kids, one teacher, and a partner teacher.

PK4 is capped at 20. Come back and visit us when your kid is in 1st and has 25 classmates.

And there is a teacher and a dedicated aide.

Parents all have biases and agendas, so take their opinions with a grain of salt. So go ask one of the teachers, in private, how effectively they feel they can educate 25 or more kids in one class even with an aide. You will (should) be pretty shocked at what you here.

If you want smaller class sizes you will have to go private. No successful public school can guarantee small class sizes when people keep moving in-bounds. The buildings are at capacity and there is no where else to put the growing in-bounds population. This is not an OOB issue. Hearst didn’t even accept OOB this year except for one or two in a couple of grades.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the 26:1 ratio is Hearst, as we have partner teachers through 2nd grade, and the upper grades aren’t that large.

Seems really unlikely. My child’s early elementary class there has 20 kids, one teacher, and a partner teacher.

PK4 is capped at 20. Come back and visit us when your kid is in 1st and has 25 classmates.

And there is a teacher and a dedicated aide.

Parents all have biases and agendas, so take their opinions with a grain of salt. So go ask one of the teachers, in private, how effectively they feel they can educate 25 or more kids in one class even with an aide. You will (should) be pretty shocked at what you here.

Anonymous wrote:Hearst families are very inclusive. If you actually care come to the playground any day of the week.

Agree. Hearst is not perfect but I don't think overcrowding is one of them. At capacity? Yes. But it is not busting at the seams like some others. We are OOB and have never felt anything but included. And I am there every day on the playground.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the 26:1 ratio is Hearst, as we have partner teachers through 2nd grade, and the upper grades aren’t that large.

Seems really unlikely. My child’s early elementary class there has 20 kids, one teacher, and a partner teacher.

PK4 is capped at 20. Come back and visit us when your kid is in 1st and has 25 classmates.

And there is a teacher and a dedicated aide.

For more inclusive social justice we need to drop enrollment caps in our more privileged public schools.

Hearst families are very inclusive. If you actually care come to the playground any day of the week.

Anonymous wrote:Well, in the unlikely event anyone is reading this thread, I doubt they’ll be making the decision to send their child to Hearst. So the problem may have been solved already. I don’t think I want my kid going to a school with parents like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Hearst’s capacity is 325, and its enrollment for this year is 312. So hardly over capacity. The outrage towards OOB children seems a bit irrational.

It’s not just that it’s overcrowded. It’s that it’s not equally distributed. The early grades are getting crushed. All these sanctimonious 4th and 5th grade parents are reminiscing about a school that no longer exists. It was nice to accommodate OOB kids when classes were 18-20 kids. Come on down off your pedistal and see what 26 kids looks like.

Build a wall! We can put it through the park!

Well, in the unlikely event anyone is reading this thread, I doubt they’ll be making the decision to send their child to Hearst. So the problem may have been solved already. I don’t think I want my kid going to a school with parents like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding trailers is a small price to pay so that Hearst and Eaton can do their part to ensure an integrated public school system. One City!

Can’t speak for Hearst, but for Eaton adding trailers would be an astronomical price to pay: it’s one city block with a tiny playground and no room to expand. I’m glad you’re not in charge of our monderization.

Um, that was an anti-OOB poster pretending to be a liberal.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the 26:1 ratio is Hearst, as we have partner teachers through 2nd grade, and the upper grades aren’t that large.

Seems really unlikely. My child’s early elementary class there has 20 kids, one teacher, and a partner teacher.

PK4 is capped at 20. Come back and visit us when your kid is in 1st and has 25 classmates.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the 26:1 ratio is Hearst, as we have partner teachers through 2nd grade, and the upper grades aren’t that large.

Seems really unlikely. My child’s early elementary class there has 20 kids, one teacher, and a partner teacher.

Third grade parent at Hearst. Both classes are 25:1. My younger is 26:2. But 2nd grade is 25 or 26 in each class and one partner teacher who goes back and forth (she’s shared between the two classes).

There are 24 in my 2nd grader's class.