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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The looks it is counterproductive to try to achieve equity in ways that harm wealthier schools without helping poorer schools. Keeping a W school from having an aide doesn't benefit your child.

[/quote]Lower performing schools actually have lower class sizes because there is additional funding to support that. Is that equitable? Based on how you are defining equity, it really isn't. However, I am fine with that because that policy actually benefits kids in lower performing schools, and I agree with the policy rationales trying to give such schools/kids a leg up.

But preventing an aide in wealthier schools doesn't actually help anyone. It just hinders some people and I don't believe that the achievement gap should be closed by, in part, preventing wealthier students from achieving as much as possible.[quote]

[quote]The above. Lower performing schools, which tend to be in less wealthy areas, sometimes have Focus or Title 1 designations and the class sizes are capped much lower. My Bethesda child may not need that same leg up, but it is still just as depressing to go into a classroom of 28ish students and 1 teacher and see how my child is basically getting zero face time with the teacher some days. My child needs learn to read, write, and do math too. An aide would greatly help this (although it would still be a lot of bodies in a small classroom where the Focus and Title 1 schools might only have 18 in the classroom.) So why can't there be lower caps on lower performing schools AND aides in the classrooms of wealthier schools when you have 30 in a room? That would be MORE equitable.[/quote]

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