On Saturday I will be running around doing a bijillion things for the social events that evening, so maybe I could swing by the park, maybe not. So here are my thoughts re: the parent 'negotiating position' (as a junior division parent, not co-chair).
Feedback from Jen Dawson's class parents (about 6 people) is so far a consensus that we support the teacher's recommendation if she feels that a 5/6 is the best choice for her and her returning students for next year. We're not worried that it will be the end of the 3-grade class in the junior division and believe that Jen will want to go back to that model. Even though many
of the parents strongly support the 3-grade model, we don't want the teacher or the returning students to be pushed into a sub-optimal class situation for an entire year for the sake of upholding a principle. If another teacher wants to teach a junior 3-grade class that would be great, as long as it doesn't totally mess up the numbers so that some classes have close to 30 kids (the junior classes are too big this year). However, I don't think it would be accurate to say that there is a strong demand for this option among the current junior division parents, and I don't think that anyone would request their child be moved from Jen's class to a new 4/5/6. There might be a desire for this among the Grade 3 parents... maybe you should talk to the Grade 3 parents in E-L's class?
Teresa
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