Reply to Fairfax County: McLean Citizens Association demands smaller class sizes

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Fairfax County: McLean Citizens Association demands smaller class sizes"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least some of the underlying data does not take into account aggregation over a grade.

For example, look at Annandale Terrace and the five classes of 1st grade students. The General Ed counts are 20, 15, 17, 19 and 19. When you add that up it totals to 90 kids. So if you divide that by the K-3 state limit of 22, that results in 4.09 classes. So it still results in five classes of 1st grade students. Wouldn't it make sense to try to spread the children out across five classes instead of create four classes  of 22 students each and one class with 2 students?[/quote]

You do realize that the FCPS staffing ratio is 26.75, so a class with 90 kids would possibly have 3 teachers in a Chantilly school (lets use Chantilly since it seems to get less attacks than Mclean). Annandale Terrace then would have two additional classes over the Chantilly school. Bucknell might have 6 classes compared to Chantilly's 3. The 22 average is for all of FCPS. There are plenty of schools that are no where near that average and are even above the state caps for class size.[/quote]

What is the FRM at Chantilly?

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics