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Anxious about projected size of DC's 2nd grade class
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Anonymous
| Ugh, just heard that class sizes are predicted to be in the low thirties in DC's second grade class. Anyone have any suggestions on how to assure DC is getting adequate attention??? |
Anonymous
| Check the parents green cards on the first day |
Anonymous
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What were the class sizes for first grade? Usually class sizes remain pretty stable through third grade, then tend to get larger in 4th.
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Anonymous
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is an object lesson in the value of living in Maryland. (Or DC.) |
Anonymous
Not so fast--I'm in MoCo, and DC's second-grade next year is projected to be 28. |
Anonymous
| How do you know what the projected class size will be? We are moving our 2 older boys to public from private - staring in K and 3rd - and would be interested to know this info (FFX - McLean). TIA |
Anonymous
| Arlington class sizes max out at 24, much lower than MoCo and Fairfax. Just FYI! |
Anonymous
| 14:36, PP here, just ask your neighbors or school sec for a projected figure-- if you are in the attendance zone for Franklin Sherman, count yourself lucky. Spring Hill is bursting at the seams... |
Anonymous
| 14:36 again - we are Chesterbrook zone. Any info regarding K or 3rd grade (Level IV) class sizes? |
Anonymous
| When did it go so high? When our kids were in K-3 in Ffx it was at 21. Those numbers are aweful! |
Anonymous
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OP, start talking up your local school and neighborhoods that feed into it like mad, all over the internet. If enough people move into your school district, they will have to hire another teacher and that will bring the class size down.
I cannot imagine trying to teach 32 second-graders. How can the teacher possibly teach at so many different levels (as the administrators claim happens? Bullhonky,) |
Anonymous
| My child's Chesterbrooke 2nd grade class this school year was between 29-30 students all year. All three 2nd grades were about the same size. |
Anonymous
My kids had more than 32 in FX. VA has a law that caps English at about 25 and one kid had over 34. This was years ago and they didn't care. Now that GT centers are demolished the overflow valve is shut off. |
Anonymous
im so glad to be in my va. my dd always has 19-22 and this is our last yr (6th grade). public ffx i agree about immigration but the kid that usually causes trouble is a citizen |
Anonymous
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I think there's a problem with the entire second-grade cohort. I couldn't figure out why, until someone mentioned the 9/11 baby boom.
Do the math -- in the months following 9/11, any babies conceived would have ended up being born after June 2002 or later, right at the end of the class now just entering third grade, but a more likely increase in the following months resulting in a glut of (current rising) second-graders. We saw this phenomenon first-hand as our DD's school had to add a kindergarten at the last minute right before her class entered the school. Last year in first grade, there were 29 kids in her class.... I think it's just going to be a sustained population bubble for this class of 2021 as they go through school. I just can't believe the schools haven't realized this and started to make adjustments for it. |