This is interesting/crazy...
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The kindergarten queue
25 January 2011
We’re not sure whether to laugh or cry after this ABC6 story about
parents braving frigid temps to get their kids into Penn Alexander’s
kindergarten, which is capped at 50 students. We’re happy that such a
school exists (full disclosure: we have a child there) and that
parents care so much about their child’s education, but we’re sad that
they are so scared of the alternatives that they feel they have to
sleep outside on the coldest night of the year to get in.
This kind of stand-in-line, first-come-first-serve enrollment system
obviously isn’t sustainable. Penn Alexander, which prides itself on
small classes, is filling up quick in the lower grades as parents move
to the neighborhood (some before they even have children) looking for
the Holy Grail of a nice urban neighborhood and a good public school.
see ABC local news video here:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7916203
