We anticipate opening two additional classrooms in the Woods Building and one in Meadows. The additional classrooms should give us more opportunities for groupings. It is very likely that we will still need to have a class of boys in the Woods Building. If your son is currently in this class, please comment on your interest in having your son continue in such a single gender class.

We absolutely will read and consider every piece of feedback we receive. Some of the greatest disappointments come, however, when parents get their hearts set on a particular teacher and do not get this teacher. We would hope that you would consider all teachers and their strengths, as we do. In addition to matching teachers with children, we also consider other factors in class composition, such as social relationships between individual children or groups of children, academic strengths and challenges of the children in the group, gender, and chronological ages. We include the input of the child’s current teacher(s) along with the input of the receiving teacher(s). The process requires a lot of thoughtful meetings. I would hope to reassure you that we do consider the feedback; it is just that specific requests for teachers cannot always be honored.

n terms of a timeline for communication, we plan to begin this work as soon as we collect feedback from all parents. It will be important that you return this feedback by Monday, May 3rd so that we can begin our process. We anticipate that the process will take several weeks. The Parents Association plans to host a meeting for parents in the Schoolhouse on the placement process on Monday, May 19th at 9:00 AM. We won’t be in a position to give placement decisions but will be able to announce which teachers will be teaching at which levels. We hope to have made significant progress in the hiring process, as well, by this point. We anticipate sending final placement decisions in late June to families.

As always, if you have any questions or comments about the placement process, please let me know.

Laurel

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