25 kids in K. Can this really work? Does it work or is it just chaos?

[Anonymous]

I have never seen a 3 year old preschool class with 25 students!

[Anonymous]

I was doing a security survey at a MCPS elementary school about two years ago and passed by the door of a kindergarten class.

The kids were running around screaming and yelling, throwing things at each other, some standing tables, just pure chaos.

I looked for the teacher and she was in the back hiding behind a coat rack reading a book.

There had to be 25 or more in that room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was doing a security survey at a MCPS elementary school about two years ago and passed by the door of a kindergarten class.

The kids were running around screaming and yelling, throwing things at each other, some standing tables, just pure chaos.

I looked for the teacher and she was in the back hiding behind a coat rack reading a book.

There had to be 25 or more in that room.

What school was this? I call bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Yes it can. Especially with a good teacher. I've heard positive things about Beall, so I think you'll be fine.

Unfortunately thanks to budget issues, 1 teacher with 20+ kids is the norm in a lot of schools. I personally feel that assistants or co teaching are needed at least through K (and is beneficial for all grades), but that's not how it works.

[Anonymous]

my son's Kindergarten class has 14 kids (public Montgomery County) with a teacher and no aide. I think it's nuts the way it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my son's Kindergarten class has 14 kids (public Montgomery County) with a teacher and no aide. I think it's nuts the way it is.

You think 14 kids is nuts? My dd shares a kindergarten class 27 other kids in at Rachel Carson. 14 kids would be a breeze.

[Anonymous]

I'm following this thread with great interest. We're preparing to move from DC to MoCo and I just learned that my daughter will have 26+ kids in her K class. She is leaving a great charter school with 20 kids and 2 teachers. We're worried that she will get lost in the shuffle. It's encouraging that most teachers are adept at handling so many students, but we're nervous just the same.

[Anonymous]

My DD starts KG in MoCo thus Sept and I find this thread a but disheartening. I also wonder how this will work with so many kids!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My two kids had the exact same K teacher. The older kid had 17 kids in the classroom, the younger kid has 28 kids. The older kid loved this teacher, the younger said that the teacher yelled a lot. My view is that this was a good teacher but she had too large of a K-class. MoCo has the money to have more teachers, but they keep on giving teachers raises, buying fancy new school buildings, buying prometheum boards, revamping curriculums, etc, etc, etc.

We vote for these priorities when we vote for the school board.

Really? I am a teacher. When did I get a raise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD starts KG in MoCo thus Sept and I find this thread a but disheartening. I also wonder how this will work with so many kids!

Mine starts this fall too. Won't know how many kids will be in the classes until everyone enrolls. It makes me anxious too.