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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is in a 24 child class at BFES.  A fine class size, but how do you get a 3:1 ratio??  My friend's  kid at Oakland Terrace (they are in a lovely home in Kensington) has 16 kids in her class.  Oh, and they have other people, too.  Their compacted math class has 10 people in it and a dedicated teacher- BFES definitely does not have that!  Stop assuming everything is more magical in some of these schools!  ALL schools follow the same rules.  [/quote]

Seriously.  Wood Acres is in the Whitman cluster.  Class size for my kids has run as high as 28-29.  Right now the school is nearly 250 overcapacity with nearly 800 kids.  800!  The school is so overcrowded, the kids start their lunch shifts at 10:45 and kids complain they have to hork their food down in 10 minutes to make way for the next shift.  Man, [b]the anti-W myths being spread are maddening[/b].[/quote]

Let's change that to Wootton and Churchill cluster... most of the ESs in those clusters are under capacity.[/quote]

One thing that seems clear from this thread is that MoCo has done a horrible job of planning all over the place. These issues do not spring up overnight. The issues identified on this thread were years in the making. MCPS deserves some of the blame for its decision process regarding school construction (i.e. not making overcrowding more of a factor in deciding which schools get help when). But the county council is equally to blame. How do you encourage development and growth without planning properly for it? Seems like there needs to be better coordination between planning divisions. Unfortunately, it's too late for kids already in the system. They'll have to deal with overcrowded schools for their entire MCPS education. Hopefully the county ca can get their act together for the next generation of kids. [/quote]

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