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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is a freshman at Yorktown - haven't heard this at all. He seems to be enjoying the year and the environment of the Schoo. Is is a particular class? Or across the board? My kid says his class sizes are around. 25-26. Is this normal for this area? [/quote]

Yes, that class size is very normal for Yorktown, W-L, and Wakefield. The class sizes at HB and Tech are much smaller. [/quote]

“HB, private school on public dime” (TM).

How can that be possible. They are just a smaller school they shouldn’t have smaller classes.  [/quote]

Because it's not true. The classes at HB are not *much* smaller. The classes are a little smaller. That is because HB does not have any counselors so they use the funds for those positions for teachers instead. Also the admins each teach a class. So that means they have a few more people teaching classes which makes the classes a little smaller. It's basically a tradeoff for having no counselors.

Also, HB sometimes puts together different grades or different levels (AP and non-AP) in the same class. People sometimes pull out class size reports and completely misconstrue them. For example, AP English Lit might only have 14 kids on paper so it looks small but that's really just half the class since there are also kids in the non AP version in the very same class. And the teacher has to teach two classes in one at the same time.

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Considering how useless our counselors have been, and my kid has met with them once in 3 years, why don’t we do that at all schools?[/quote]

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