How many students are in your math 5/6 class?

[Anonymous]

We have 36 in ours compared with 15 or fewer in the Math 5 classes at our school. Curious if this difference is typical.

[Anonymous]

Roughly opposite, here.

[Anonymous]

Is there only one 5/6 class? How many Math 5 classes are there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there only one 5/6 class? How many Math 5 classes are there?

OP here. At our school, there are 4 math 5 classes and only one math 5/6 class.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like they need an extra math teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there only one 5/6 class? How many Math 5 classes are there?

OP here. At our school, there are 4 math 5 classes and only one math 5/6 class.

This was the case for us last year when my youngest was in it. 36 or so kids in the class. They had the Staff Development teacher come up and co-teach sometimes. (Not sure if co-teach is the right word. She'd peel off a group of 10 or so and teach those kids that day. My kid vastly preferred being in her group.

When DD took it a few years ago, there were so many kids in the 4/5 class that kids had to sit on the floor. Parents pitched a fit until they re-did the entire 4th grade schedule to make 2 classes of 4/5.

[Anonymous]

I really hate that “parents pitched a fit” is one of the only parts of MCPS decision
Making that doesn’t change year to year. If we DIDN’T pitch a fit they literally couldn’t be assed to give a blip about our kids.

DESPICABLE.

[Anonymous]

30 this year. Last year 4/5 was much smaller. Only 22.

[Anonymous]

Math 5/6 This year: 22.

Math Last year: 21.

ELC this year: 28.

ELC last year: 14.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there only one 5/6 class? How many Math 5 classes are there?

OP here. At our school, there are 4 math 5 classes and only one math 5/6 class.

This was the case for us last year when my youngest was in it. 36 or so kids in the class. They had the Staff Development teacher come up and co-teach sometimes. (Not sure if co-teach is the right word. She'd peel off a group of 10 or so and teach those kids that day. My kid vastly preferred being in her group.

When DD took it a few years ago, there were so many kids in the 4/5 class that kids had to sit on the floor. Parents pitched a fit until they re-did the entire 4th grade schedule to make 2 classes of 4/5.

Is this CCES by chance? That’s what is happening for us there this year. The CES 5/6 classes are smaller (no more than 28), but kids in the general education programmed are crammed together into one class, with an extra teacher in to work with kids in small-group time. It is not going well.

[Anonymous]

28 in ELC and almost exactly the same group in 5/6. Only ones at the school. They've been together for 2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Roughly opposite, here.

Ours are more balanced, maybe three classes of 28-30. Math 5 runs about the same or a little lower maybe 22-25. Under the circumstances, I don't think they could do any better at our school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there only one 5/6 class? How many Math 5 classes are there?

OP here. At our school, there are 4 math 5 classes and only one math 5/6 class.

This was the case for us last year when my youngest was in it. 36 or so kids in the class. They had the Staff Development teacher come up and co-teach sometimes. (Not sure if co-teach is the right word. She'd peel off a group of 10 or so and teach those kids that day. My kid vastly preferred being in her group.

When DD took it a few years ago, there were so many kids in the 4/5 class that kids had to sit on the floor. Parents pitched a fit until they re-did the entire 4th grade schedule to make 2 classes of 4/5.

Is this CCES by chance? That’s what is happening for us there this year. The CES 5/6 classes are smaller (no more than 28), but kids in the general education programmed are crammed together into one class, with an extra teacher in to work with kids in small-group time. It is not going well.

Not OP but I’m fairly certain this is CCES and that the decision to not split the kids is based purely on Jody finding it annoying (and not wanting to give in to 5/6 parents - she is stubborn).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there only one 5/6 class? How many Math 5 classes are there?

OP here. At our school, there are 4 math 5 classes and only one math 5/6 class.

This was the case for us last year when my youngest was in it. 36 or so kids in the class. They had the Staff Development teacher come up and co-teach sometimes. (Not sure if co-teach is the right word. She'd peel off a group of 10 or so and teach those kids that day. My kid vastly preferred being in her group.

When DD took it a few years ago, there were so many kids in the 4/5 class that kids had to sit on the floor. Parents pitched a fit until they re-did the entire 4th grade schedule to make 2 classes of 4/5.

Is this CCES by chance? That’s what is happening for us there this year. The CES 5/6 classes are smaller (no more than 28), but kids in the general education programmed are crammed together into one class, with an extra teacher in to work with kids in small-group time. It is not going well.

Not OP but I’m fairly certain this is CCES and that the decision to not split the kids is based purely on Jody finding it annoying (and not wanting to give in to 5/6 parents - she is stubborn).

DP and I agree with you. She has no problem having smaller class sizes for CES, but no way will she offer that to the kids in the general education program who qualify for enrichment. It's clear she only cares about the CES program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have 36 in ours compared with 15 or fewer in the Math 5 classes at our school. Curious if this difference is typical.

We are at a focus school, but our principal doesn’t let any class get bigger than 22. Math 5/6 has about 15 kids.