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Anonymous wrote:Classes are split by birth year/age and math/ reading ability. The highly able kids are usually split into 2 groups by age. Then the classes are evenly split with highly able kids (by age), kids who need the most help, and then sprinkled in with everyone else.

Not in kindergarten. Mcps used to do kindergarten orientation but not anymore because the district didn't want to pay staff to run it during the summer. So schools will be making the lists blindly.

Op- usually the Wednesday before school begins you will get an email/postcard about your child's assignment. Most schools have an open house Thursday or Friday where you meet the teacher, drop off supplies and you can look around the building too.

Kindergarten orientation used to the in the spring in every ES. Teachers didn’t get paid more. But kindergarteners had to stay home for 2-3 days. That is the practice that MCPS ended. Schools can still have K orientation, but they have to be able to keep the existing by K kids occupied on those days. Some schools still have it by having paras or subs work with the existing K students.

You can also find this in ParentVue once it is populated. That has been an earlier notice for us the last few years (in terms of classroom teacher assignments). But our ES still does post hard-copy lists very close to the opening of school. Can't remember if K is included in that though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand why they got rid of kindergarten "roundup" in the spring. It was so helpful for teachers to get a preview of the incoming kids and thus try to balance the classes, find out who might need help with accessing special services, give the kids a chance to meet teachers and other children and see the school, give parents a chance to connect with PTA, daycare, after-school activities, etc. etc. etc.

Huh? Aftercare at our school filled up in January for next school year.

Then you need a new provider that can meet demand.

And how do you propose finding one. This is nonsense. KidsCo and KAH are also limited by the facilities available to them...so if the cafeteria (where we have KidsCo) can have X students at one time, per the fire code, that's how many spots there are.

Anonymous wrote:Officially you find out the week before school
Starts. BUT I had a friend who worked for mcps and he could always look my kid up in July and see who’s class she was in. Do they do it in July if not earlier, they just don’t want you to know.

“They” don’t want you to know? The teachers are not at work until the week before school starts. There are two administrators and a secretary in the building in the summer — that’s it. There is no staff to host a welcome party for you in July.

Late in the summer, like the week before school starts.

Anonymous wrote:Officially you find out the week before school
Starts. BUT I had a friend who worked for mcps and he could always look my kid up in July and see who’s class she was in. Do they do it in July if not earlier, they just don’t want you to know.

Absolutely they make the lists in advance during the summer but they deliberately don't share it until the last week of summer because things change at the last minute due to various reasons like enrollment or staffing changes. And it gives parents less time to complain

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand why they got rid of kindergarten "roundup" in the spring. It was so helpful for teachers to get a preview of the incoming kids and thus try to balance the classes, find out who might need help with accessing special services, give the kids a chance to meet teachers and other children and see the school, give parents a chance to connect with PTA, daycare, after-school activities, etc. etc. etc.

Mcps didn't want to pay staff to do it outside of their duty schedule

Anonymous wrote:Classes are split by birth year/age and math/ reading ability. The highly able kids are usually split into 2 groups by age. Then the classes are evenly split with highly able kids (by age), kids who need the most help, and then sprinkled in with everyone else.

Not in kindergarten. Mcps used to do kindergarten orientation but not anymore because the district didn't want to pay staff to run it during the summer. So schools will be making the lists blindly.

Op- usually the Wednesday before school begins you will get an email/postcard about your child's assignment. Most schools have an open house Thursday or Friday where you meet the teacher, drop off supplies and you can look around the building too.

Officially you find out the week before school
Starts. BUT I had a friend who worked for mcps and he could always look my kid up in July and see who’s class she was in. Do they do it in July if not earlier, they just don’t want you to know.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand why they got rid of kindergarten "roundup" in the spring. It was so helpful for teachers to get a preview of the incoming kids and thus try to balance the classes, find out who might need help with accessing special services, give the kids a chance to meet teachers and other children and see the school, give parents a chance to connect with PTA, daycare, after-school activities, etc. etc. etc.

Huh? Aftercare at our school filled up in January for next school year.

Then you need a new provider that can meet demand.

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand why they got rid of kindergarten "roundup" in the spring. It was so helpful for teachers to get a preview of the incoming kids and thus try to balance the classes, find out who might need help with accessing special services, give the kids a chance to meet teachers and other children and see the school, give parents a chance to connect with PTA, daycare, after-school activities, etc. etc. etc.

Because there are an increasing number of families who can't afford to take off or pay for childcare when schools cancel classes for the incoming K families to b oriented.

Also note, some schools figured out ways to do an orientation of some kind.

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand why they got rid of kindergarten "roundup" in the spring. It was so helpful for teachers to get a preview of the incoming kids and thus try to balance the classes, find out who might need help with accessing special services, give the kids a chance to meet teachers and other children and see the school, give parents a chance to connect with PTA, daycare, after-school activities, etc. etc. etc.

Our still has it. They can hold it — just can’t make current k kids stay home.

Most schools generate this list in April and May as students enroll. Typically, schools try to balance gender, race, kids with IEPs, etc. However, often families don't enroll until the very last minute and then it is harder to do that (but still try). We do usually know who gets which teacher, but that is rarely released until a day or two before school starts. It is common for teachers to leave over the summer and it is easier on families not to count on having one particular teacher.

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand why they got rid of kindergarten "roundup" in the spring. It was so helpful for teachers to get a preview of the incoming kids and thus try to balance the classes, find out who might need help with accessing special services, give the kids a chance to meet teachers and other children and see the school, give parents a chance to connect with PTA, daycare, after-school activities, etc. etc. etc.

Huh? Aftercare at our school filled up in January for next school year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Classes are split by birth year/age and math/ reading ability. The highly able kids are usually split into 2 groups by age. Then the classes are evenly split with highly able kids (by age), kids who need the most help, and then sprinkled in with everyone else.

Kindergarten? LMFAO.

Hahaha yea wut? Pp, you just not have a kid in Mcps.