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[quote=Anonymous]Former teacher in PGCPS. No child should be forced to spend the entire day just doing math and reading test prep. Once kids move from learning to read to reading to learn, they need to be exposed to a variety of subjects in order to understand the vocabulary necessary for reading comprehension. This is especially important to ESOL, Title 1, and special education students. Middle class families have the money to provide those experiences outside of the classroom or in summer camps. Many schools with active and well-funded PTAs do this out of there own pocket.

A couple of points as to the above comments, 
1. Research on decreasing class sizes doesn't point to it being terribly effective. I'd rather the money went for high quality universal pre-k or an extended (possibly year round) school schedule.
2. To the above pgcps teacher, even if it's that we're only failing the special ed or ESOL or Title 1groups, first off some of those children constitute the majority of those schools so those schools aren't doing well and second, kids we're obviously not doing right by those kids using the model we have.

One could make the argument that money should go for art teachers or language instruction or increased time for science and history, but it is absolutely necessary that kids have something besides math and reading prep to be successful.[/quote]

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