kindergartener will have 30 kids in his class!
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Anonymous
| We had several advanced readers including my DC and all aspects of K were decent although not too much above the curriculum standards which are available to the public. There were under 25 kids per class though. 30 seems ridiculous. Sorry. People who feel strongly about the classes being too large, please push Fairfax County to lower the number of students per teacher. Perhaps some teachers can handle 30 new students coming in, but really, why should they have to for this young an age and why should parents have to worry about this? It was a lower ratio just a few years ago. |
Anonymous
| Op here, cant stop wondering what to do. I am feeling very frustrated. 30 kids is unacceptable! in addition the instruction is in a language other than english. Just cant see how a teacher can control a class of that size. perhaps For upper grades but not kindergarten. may try it out and see how my son does. Feeling so annoyed At the public School system. Children should not have to be in k with 30 others! |
Anonymous
| Chill OP, I grew up with 40 kids in each class. Pretty much my whole country was like that. |
Anonymous
What country? |
Anonymous
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OP, I would not freak out just yet. The fact that the kindergarten is immersion is actually in your favor. There will likely be lots of small-group activities.
Also, the year-to-year attrition rate for immersion is higher than for regular classes, so immersion programs NEED a higher number of kids at the beginning (in kindergarten) because that number will almost certainly dwindle over time. By 1st or 2nd grade, there may only be 23 kids in the class. (Much harder to transfer into an immersion program in later years.) If you take a longer-term view, your child may end up better off, with lower-than-average class sizes! |
Anonymous
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But it's 30 kids with one teacher PLUS an aide of some sort. So that's really more like 15 kids per adult. That's FINE! Plus consider all the other parents freaking at the idea of 30 kids in a class - surely some of them will yank their kids, so by the first day there'll be fewer than 300 kids anyway.
My second grade class had 32 or 33 kids in the class, and my teacher was super experienced and handled us all just fine. If your kid is averagely smart or more, then he'll do fine and you can teach him whatever he's not picking up. My kid never went to preschool, walked into kindergarten knowing how to read, and all she learned there that she hadn't known previously was "how to do school." |
Anonymous
Op here, thanks For this post. When you break down the numbers, 15 kids per teacher is reasonable. I would rather have a class wjth 15:1 than 30:2. 30 kids all together is just,massive group. |
Anonymous
| kids tend to drop out of language immersion mid-year, when it becomes too stresseful. Probably the class will be down to 27 by December |
Anonymous
what's special about this K "program"? |
Anonymous
| FWIW, a colleague of mine taught K and the year she had 28 children in her class, she cried every night. So there's that to consider. |
Anonymous
| Is this Montgomery County? Where the school system's money went to raises instead of additional classroom support? |
Anonymous
Did she have an assistant? |
Anonymous
| 30 per class for k is ridiculous especially for immersion. My DC attends a partial immersion K and the class size is the same as preK, 18, with an assistant. How big was the preK class? Why are they making k so big? |
Anonymous
| Teacher here. Three kids makes a big difference in management and crowdedness. I am expecting 27 second graders but it will most likely be more than that. 30 is large, especially for kindergarten, but be thankful there is an aide. In my school, K does not get them, and last year classes were about 30. |
Anonymous
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Our school tends to have notoriously big classes-cap at 30 and I was told student teacher ratios have to be consistent accross the county so class size shouldn't matter? Was that was a bunch of hooey?
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