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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother teaches at an Urban school district  in PA not far From NY.  His particular school has high poverty - lots of ESL though the school district overall is middle income.  The whole area got hit hard With COVID in the spring coming from NY and covid rates  worse then here - still.  But they have been hybrid all fall until planned break in December. As planned, they Restarted hybrid this week.  All the teachers will be vaccinated Jan 25 week.

I just don’t understand why MD is so different. [/quote]

And, how many families actually signed up for hybrid?  The issue is we don't have enough teachers to do both beyond the safety issues.  We have 35 kids per MS class on a good day.  We don't have enough classrooms for each teacher to have their own classroom.  Kids are mixed up in different classes so they change classrooms multiple times a day plus lunch.  Some classrooms don't have windows (not sure how that is safe from a fire standpoint but its still allowed).  We have an old boiler system, no HVAC.  [/quote]

In which middle school do you have 35 kids per middle school class?[/quote]

The one my child attends.  [/quote]

I'm choosing middle schools at random here. Pyle, average class size for English, 17.1, for other, 19.8. Frost, 21.0 22.5. Ridgeview, 17.1 14.9. Baker, 16.7 16.6. Montgomery Village, 17.3 15.5. Rosa Parks, 19.2 19.8. Loiederman, 17.9 17.1. OK, I'm bored now, but it does lead to questions, doesn't it?[/quote]

If you pulled those stats from the School at a Glance I would encourage you to look at it with a grain of salt.  The statistic is generated by taking the total number of students and dividing it by the total number of staff, regardless of whether or not the staff members are certified teachers.  So it includes paraeducators and special ed. paras.  It also assumes that all teachers are teaching classes that are the same size, which is not true.  Special education teachers will teach smaller class sizes.  Speech language pathologists provide pull-out support but their presence does not affect the overall class size.  Same thing for ESOL teachers and specialists in ES.

A K - 2 school has 600 students and could easily have 40 staff members with teaching certification, but they don't have 15 students per class.  Instead they probably have been 20 - 25 per teacher and the rest of the staff are a combination of special educators, ESOL teachers and specialists (PE, music, art etc.)[/quote]

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