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bt:- .2. > Dear Mr. Debruyn: : I am writing as a parent of twOpoten.., applicants to the charter d Dehen- kindegarten, and Max Dehen-second gra e, as a : ~~~':=e Dahen. llive at 14806S",!,,,,; Ori'/; in:~ey. l was > copied on the recent MDE opinion Interpreting. town ~n Cl 'Ib . .'. ussed this matter With CO-Clty councl mem er > synonymously.. Ihave dblSeCr of occasions and have taken an interest given > Matthew Look on anum "d t t statutory Preference 'to Ramse. y. kmdegarten resl . en s.. > a~ apparen . , : Mr lo,* copied me on your January 29: 2008 corresponden~ Ito him. : > understand that you are going to be talkm,g wlth.legal counse.. : > would like to be kept in the loop if these dlscusslo~s are PrtUbIlC.. 1999 : . Elementary has not had a kmdega en smce ! > information: (Ramsey th t since the PACT school moved to Ramsey, ; . : ~~~:: ';;':I~~~f:':,'da~s have been applied in the ~s ~t they > ertain to Ramsey kindegarten applicants.) Your .Jetter to r. 00 . > Pests that although there are 36 available kindegart:n spots, that suggb r is reduced by 22 spots (to 14 available spots) given ~2 . > n.um e /. ts are siblings of current students. You Indicated > klOdegarten app lean .. d R sey > that there are appro~imately 60+. applications of sIbling. an am > kindegarten applicants. AOL Mail- Message.View Page 3 of4 .-.. > that sibling preference tn,lmps Ramsey kindegarten applicants, vice > versa or even a proximity preference. The preferences appear to be > equal.. There is no lega/ authority to suggest otherwise. Thus, > following the law as it is currently written, all 60 + applications you > referred to would be Possible candidates for the 36 positions and not > just the 14 (left over) as you suggest (Obviously, there is the > problem that some of the 22 sibling applicants might not be a "sibling" > preference hac1 the preference been interpreted property fror Ramsey > kindegarten applicants in recent years.) > i > (would agree with your analysis that if a. sibling preference does not i > trump Ramsey residents, certainly there is a possibility that some .! > kindegarten students with siblings currently enrolled will not be i > admitted. So it goes. (My children currently attend different I > schools.) However, if the preferences are applied equally as law r > appears to be written, Ramsey kindegartenapplicants would no longer I .> suffer a disadvantage as they. have in recent years. The law mayor may I > not need to be changed but as it currently sits, no one preference is a . I > priority until the legislature weigns in on this. I do not believe. i > there is a lack of clarity here. . > >In closing, I appreciate your efforts and would ask.that a direction on > this be made expeditiously, as I and other families have paid > alternative school fees for other kindegarten spots. > > Sincere1y, I > . i f > I I fJOhnp. Dahan I> I -38- i > i > More new features than ever. Check. out the new AOL Mail 1'_ I J 'h++_.fI..~;"L..__:1 _";'1 -175-