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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is there are 9 classes of 25+ kids per class. I’m trying to wrap my head around [b]how things function as a school that big[/b]! Is it easy for kids to make friends? Does the staff know the kids names? Are lunch/recess overwhelming? It might work great(?), but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it all! [/quote]

Like clockwork! [/quote]

The size of the school is no big deal. In fact, I feel it's more of a benefit.[/quote]

It’s no big deal that kids get shuffled into new classes where they only know 1-2 kids every year? That the lunchroom is chaotic since there are so many kids? That there are only a few adults supervising a large number of students at recess? I’m willing to believe that there are benefits to a larger school for older grades when there could be more specialized course offerings, for example. Here I am not seeing a benefit. I would love to hear more. [/quote]

You do realize it's pretty much the same at every single school. Like if you have fewer classes per grade, you would probably just create great bands to do lunch and recess together. So you would still have about the same number of kids at lunch and recess at the same time[/quote]

Except these ‘bands’ change every year. PP, there are some very big downsides to being in large elementary schools and not really an upside. My kids had 240 in their grade at TPES and Piney Branch. If I’d had a chance to send them to a smaller school I would have. Ironically we moved here for the schools but I didn’t realize just how big they were. My kid suffered for it as they didn’t start in K and were used to a very close school community. I doubt the principal ever knew who either of mine were, for example.[/quote]

There are about 600 kids at Takoma elementary and 600 kids at piney Branch. I realize it might be different from where you are from, but in this area that's pretty much the norm. I don't think there's a lot of elementary schools that have fewer than 400 kids unless it's a very special program [/quote]

I can tell you where I am, it’s Takoma park, and it’s not the norm in Montgomery county. That’s 1200 kids in a K-5 elementary school. That’s huge and much bigger than most other schools. I guess you don’t realize that each school houses only three grades (K-2 and 3-5).[/quote]

Actually no. My kid also goes to a split school (pine crest) so we totally understand how it's pulling from two different neighborhoods. I've never really been clear why MCPS only did this with like five or six different schools and every other school is k to 5 school. I have a theory about it being some kind of social engineering because it definitely creates more economic and ethnic diversity[/quote]

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