Reply to 50 kids in a class

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "50 kids in a class"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I'm curious about something.  
To all you parents who have kids in the class (and those who don't), would you be OK with 50 kids and an aide in a class?  If not, why not?  It's functionally equivalent to what is going on now.  No expertise is needed for crowd control function the second teacher is performing during the lessons - the aide can do that just fine.  [/quote]

Do you really not see the difference between two experienced teachers (plus two student teachers) and a teacher and an aide? I'm not sure many of you understand how classroom management is not something that everyone can do, but when you [i]do[/i] have teachers who are skilled at it the classroom runs beautifully. OTOH, when you have a not-so-great teacher he or she can't handle even a small class. In this case there are two teachers who are [i]both[/i] good at management and teaching. I do understand how the thought of this type of class would be off-putting to lots of parents and maybe not the best thing for every student; [b]however, it's not unique[/b]. Personally, I'm happy to have my child in this class rather than in a class with a first-time teacher or a bad teacher.  Ultimately, the kids in this class and in this school are extremely lucky and most will go on to have successful school careers wherever they wind up because they have parents who are educated and who care. Lafayette now has the largest enrollment of any school in the city, so it's obvious there are lots of growing pains. However, it's hard to argue that it's not a very good school. [/quote]

It's not unique? Please point me to all the other classes in DC with 50 children.[/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