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[quote=Anonymous]No longer in the DC area, but in our state, K-3 class sizes are limited to 18.  Son(6) is adhd and has had increased anxiety/sensory stuff since starting K, but did really well in his mainstream K.  His school has a full time gifted class starting in 1st grade.  Last month, I found out from a neighbor that last year's gifted class was 28 kids but two teachers.  That had us really nervous given our son's profile, so we started looking into privates but preference was to keep him in the otherwise excellent gifted program in the public.  Now the school office just opened and i found out the gifted class this year is 36 kids with two teachers.  I'm going in this afternoon to find out a bit more about how this will actually work in practice, but i'm assuming they didn't split it into two classes either because they don't have a physical class for it, or because only one of the teacher's is certified to teach gifted.

This class size is absolutely bonkers, right?  So many voices. So much chaos.  I'm assuming there are a lot of 6 year old kids -- NS or neurotypical -- who will struggle in a class with 36 kids and two teachers. This would be a terrible idea, right? and i shouldn't even be debating private versus public at this point, right?

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