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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The title of your thread is kind of misleading.  The MCA didn't "demand" smaller class sizes.  It adopted a resolution urging FCPS to narrow - but not eliminate - the current differences in class sizes.

The issue has been percolating for years, but the School Board has continued to let classes in McLean, Vienna and Great Falls get larger.  Test scores remain very high, of course, but the parents see how much smaller the classes are elsewhere in FCPS, as well as in APS and FCCPS, and they feel short-changed and taken for granted.       [/quote]

:roll: I would love to know what the average McLean household pays in property taxes - I bet it isn't much more than my husband and I pay, and we are zoned for a title 1 school. Believe it or not, there are pockets of nice properties in other parts of the of the county.

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What is your point?  Your children do not have the larger class sizes and benefit from the additional resources from the county and elsewhere. [/quote]

My daughter is not school age yet, but we certainly did not move here for the small class sizes in the local elementary school. That notion is absolutely laughable.

And I see the additional resources that go to Title 1 schools as an equalizer to keep them from being completely in the toilet. I'd rather see slightly larger class sizes, and to also see more incentives to teach at Title 1 schools. [/quote]

Slightly larger is not what is happening now though. Since you don't have a child in the school system, you don't really know how well they'd do with large class sizes so it makes your comment pretty irrelevant. I agree there should be more incentives to teach at Title 1 schools in terms of pay, but that doesn't mean teachers in other schools should have to deal with overcrowded classrooms. Has there even been a study done on whether title one schools are having difficulty getting teachers? Is Herndon having more trouble getting teachers than McNair? Some of those schools just aren't that convenient to travel to and aren't central to other industries in the area.[/quote]

Well - I don't think I ever want my daughter in a class with 15 students. I like the vibe that groups of 18 - 25 students bring to a class. She's a little shy, like me, but is flourishing in a larger daycare setting that we are sending her to now, rather than the smaller one we were sending her to, and it just makes my heart swell. [/quote]

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