would you send your kindergartner to a school with 28 students in the class?

[Anonymous]

yeah, those limits are bogus. Our limit was supposed to be 28 and then a new teacher would be hired. THAT didn't happen, and now the classes have 30/class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our MoCo elementary has 27-28 kids per class with 1 teachers and an aide that rotates between several classes. This is the #1 reason we have opted for private school. While some kids can handle big classes, we don't think ours can. One of our kids would spend his day goofing off and needs extra coaxing to do his work; the other is shy and gets lost in a crowd. I'm sure both kids would manage to get by in the bigger classes, but I don't think either would do his/her best or shine.

To the PP pointing out the high number of kids per class in Catholic school- yes, most Catholic schools have student/teacher ratios similar to, or even worse than, public school. Independent private schools usually have much smaller classes.

The limit for K in MoCo is 26, so I doubt these numbers are accurate.

Give the principle of Rosemary Hills a call if you don't believe those numbers. They could even be higher next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:28 is not "outrageous". Good lord, what decade was it when you were in school???

Oh, wow. Your standards are so low it's frightening. 28 children in an elementary class is both outrageous and unacceptable!

Would 14 kids in a class be outrageous and unacceptable?

Because if there are two adults, the kids effectively have a 1:14 ratio.

My family was talking about this recently. I had 22 kids in my kindergarten class...but no aide. My father had 53 kids in his elementary school class in Boston. So I'm not sure posters who said that all the classes used to be smaller are universally right.

I agree. I don't remember how many kids were in my kindergarten class, but I definitely remember that back in the early 80's when I was in upper elementary school, class sizes were always from 32-35 students. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've always been under the assumption that class sizes are smaller now than what was common a few decades ago.

[Anonymous]

Did you get a lot out of school and feel connected with that many children? Would you want your children to go to a school that large? My elementary school only had 18 children per class in the 80's and it was still fairly crappy so class size isn't everything, but at least I did get some personal attention and learn enough to do well in the workforce. So many children I knew though hated school. I don't feel though that the curriculum has gotten that much better and on top of it, the class sizes are much larger and the teachers have more work to do making public schools feel even less personal to me.

[Anonymous]

What would the OP do instead? Is the question whether she should pay for a smaller private school, move out of the school district, what? Most people don't think about where they "send" their child. They send them to the local school. People with such rich choices should appreciate that they have choices, rather than drive themseves crazy over their abundance of choices.

[Anonymous]

I attended 2 schools, one with around 40 kids per class the other with 25 or so. Somehow the former provided a better and even more personalized experience. Class size is a factor, but quality of teachers and school culture overall are equally important if not more.