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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. We aren't at Greenwood.

I went back and counted more carefully -- one class at 28 and three at 27. This is a school that is used to big classes and the teacher with 28 is very good, but as a PP pointed out, that gives her a lot of reading/math groups to manage! Plus, I have an easy going kid who can fade into the background pretty easily.

My older kid had a class of 30 by the end of 5th grade a few years ago. Even with an experienced, talented teacher, this is just too big.  [/quote]

Our DS’ ES classroom has 28 kids.  No joke, it was five different reading groups.  Honestly, I would have preferred that they combine some of the ‘closer’ groups instead of how they did it.  I appreciate the fact that they were aiming for letting the kids work to their potential, but the poor teacher read one chapter book with one group and then read that same chapter book a few weeks later when the next group got to that level.

Also, if your kid is a strong reader and reading anywhere above grade level, there will be a lot of ‘read to self’ time because the teacher has no choice but to work with the kids who are behind.  [/quote]

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