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Anonymous
| Out of curiosity: How many kids will there be in your child's kindergarten class this fall? How many full-time teachers will be in the room? At which school? |
Anonymous
| 16 kids, 2 full-time teachers, Burgundy Farm |
Anonymous
14 students, 2 full-time teachers, Washington International School |
Anonymous
| Does anyone have this information for Beauvoir and Maret? |
Anonymous
| Beauvoir should have 4 classes of about 20 each with two teachers, one main and one assistant from their teaching program. At Maret, there is 18-20 and one teacher and one asst teacher. |
Anonymous
| I heard that an assistant makes no difference in the end. The class size issues are the same as with no assistant. |
Anonymous
| I disagree that an assistant makes no difference. It makes a HUGE difference esp w/ younger kids like in kindergarten. I have a friend who teaches kindergarten and some years she has an assistant and some years she doesn't. When a child has an accident in the bathroom (which happens more often than you would think at age 5) she has to go in the bathroom and deal with it (even if it interrupts class time) b/c she has no help. All of the little things that assistants do help free up the teacher for instruction. A class of 25 kids in kindergarten is the norm around me and w/ no assistant, that is one overwhelmed teacher! |
Anonymous
| 22 kids, two full teachers. |
Anonymous
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depends on the assistant.
For us, in kinder, the assistant was worse than no good at all. In 2nd, the assistant was a big asset. |
Anonymous
Where? |
Anonymous
| At Norwood we've been told: two classes of 17-18 with two full-time teachers; 1 class of 9 with one full-time teacher. |
Anonymous
|
17 kids, one teacher, one assistant teacher.
Mount Rainier Elementary School, Prince Georges County PS. |
Anonymous
| We've been reading the Ramona Quimby books, and Ramona had 29 kids in her kindergarten class, so these numbers aren't looking too bad in historical context, at least. (Assuming, of course, Beverly Cleary can be treated as a reliable historical source...) |
Anonymous
| In Arlington county, anywhere from 17-23 kids - one full time teacher, one assistant |
Anonymous
| One note about "numbers" at least in the Mont. Co public school system: the numbers that they report for kindergarten, for example, only reflect the mainstream children, even though there are a handful of other children who are there for part of the day in the classroom but then leave for special services during the day. So for part of the day, you might have the reported 24 kids in the class, but there are several hours where there are actually 28 when the special needs children are there. (This information from a principal at a Bethesda elementary school). |