Class size in K ?

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Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Your dcps class doesn't have two teachers. It has one teacher and an aide. At least at my dcps, aides are poorly educated and poorly paid and very uneven quality. And no aide after K, unless you're at one of the handful of schools where the pta pays for extra staff.

We went from 26 kids in a wotp dcps with one teacher to 18 kids in private, plus an additional math specialist during math class.

It really depends. I volunteered pre-covid in K and our aide was in college close to getting her teaching degree. She worked in small groups (as did the teacher). No, she wasn’t a credentialed, but yes two teachers were on the classroom. The other two aides at the school were similar.

Also, your post wreaks of privilege.

Those two are contrary points.

Also, it's reeks.

I'm an aid who could get the license from OSSE (I passed all the Praxis tests and have 32 MA credits in ECE), but it wouldn't make a difference in my pay this year. There's a teacher plus an aid who is retired DCPS K teacher of over 25 years. I'd say that 2 teachers in the classroom can happen. Not sure if this aid has an active license or not, but I'm sure she could renew it.
We also have several specialist coming into the classroom several times a week.

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Anonymous wrote:i know of a few MCPS school Ks that have 12-13 in each class

Can you say which?

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My DS and DD were in a class of 35 in California. 1 teacher no aide but every day 3 parent volunteers (when needed).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i know of a few MCPS school Ks that have 12-13 in each class

Can you say which?

Not the PP, but it's my understanding that the schools in MCPS that have lower test scores and high populations of FARMS students have much lower class sizes because they intentionally ensured small class sizes to try to provide more support.

[Anonymous]

Norwood has 2 kindergartens, one with 16 kids and one with 17 kids. Two teachers per class (4 total). Plus a reading specialist, art class, music class, PE every day, science class, spanish class, a social skills/counselor specialist, and library specialist.

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WES has two K classes with 14 students and two teachers in each.

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St Pat’s. 18 students 2 lead teachers (both degreed, neither is an aide). They split intro 2 groups of 9 for most academic instruction and then are all together for specials, recess and chapel.

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River School, two K cohorts, kept distanced during this pandemic. My child's cohort has 14 students, 2 lead teachers (both have master's degrees). Usually there's also an intern (in the process of getting their master's) or a teacher's aide (with a bachelor's in education).

Separate specialists for science, art, drama, PE, yoga. Music was removed during this pandemic.

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I teach kindergarten in a public school. While I'm fortunate to only have 20 students (some schools have 30 or more), I'm jealous hearing of schools with two teachers in a room. If I had that kind of set up, I could really work just 40 hours a week, and would have zero stress. What an easy gig.

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Anonymous wrote:I teach kindergarten in a public school. While I'm fortunate to only have 20 students (some schools have 30 or more), I'm jealous hearing of schools with two teachers in a room. If I had that kind of set up, I could really work just 40 hours a week, and would have zero stress. What an easy gig.

I used to teach in DCPS years ago and after seeing the wonderful work environment that my child’s teachers have, I will only go back to the classroom if I can work in a well resourced independent school. It’s no wonder they are able to do such a good job and be so chill when every single thing they need is provided snd there is plenty of staffing for them to have reasonable amounts of planning time during the work day.

[Anonymous]

Lowell - 18 kids, 2 lead teachers.

DS went to a MCPS school for K and had 20 kids, 1 teacher, no aides.

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Why so small?

Anonymous wrote:Christ Episcopal School: 6 kids, 1 teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Why so small?

Anonymous wrote:Christ Episcopal School: 6 kids, 1 teacher

That's definitely too small. A school we visited was trying to use that as their selling point and I have twins. so 4 kids and my twins. I was like nope!

[Anonymous]

As a parent with older kids, I can share this is not an issue you will care about at all in a few years. All the privates have pretty small class sizes the specific number of kids really doesn’t make a big difference.

[Anonymous]

18 max, 2 teachers