Janney third grade parents--what do you think of the giant class sizes?
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Anonymous
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My child comes home every night and complains of often not being able to hear anything. It sounds like a chaotic environment.
I know that a child in another class suffered a concussion last week at the hands of another student. I really think we were sold a line of b.s. by the school when they organized the classes like this. |
Anonymous
| How many kids are in your class? |
Anonymous
| 32 |
Anonymous
| Whoa! 32?? I didn't realize that was permissible in DCPS. |
Anonymous
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It seems like an awkward arrangement to us but our child seems fine with it.
Not sure what classroom noise or this alleged concussion has to do with it though - 2 teachers ought to be better able to control a classroom than one. What are the details on this concussion incident - your post is the first I've heard of it. |
Anonymous
| Is this 1 teacher for 32 kids? |
Anonymous
It's 32 with two teachers, not a teacher and an aide. |
Anonymous
No there are two teachers per class. |
Anonymous
| Did they do this because of a lack of classroom space? If so, they should have cut a PreK class. 32 3rd graders in one classroom is nuts...even with two teachers. |
Anonymous
yes, they are out of classrooms. |
Anonymous
The concussion happened within the past few days. |
Anonymous
| It's time to split Janney's IB area. Logically, streets east of Wisconsin should go to Murch or Hearst. |
Anonymous
| The school must feel their solution is doable because I can't imagine they'd risk giving the students a great 3rd grade year since that's the first real year of high stakes testing. But seriously, 32 kids is way too many. |
Anonymous
And do you have details on what happened and whether it had anything to do with the 3rd grade classroom model? I can easily see how my child might get a concussion on the playground or maybe in PE but a concussion typically requires a serious blow to the head and I'm having a hard time figuring how that may have happened in a classroom. Also we are pretty socially dialed in so I find it hard to believe we haven't heard about this already so I hope you are not making things up to stir the pot? |
Anonymous
It was inflicted by one child against another in the classroom. The injured child was moved to another class for the remainder of the year. I think you need to adjust your "social dial". |