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[quote=Anonymous]Our high school was missing computer science teachers at the beginning of the year.  However, in past years, we've also had several long term subs starting the year in some depts, so I'm not sure it is any more pronounced this year.  (Some depts are just really tough to hire into.)

Be careful when you compare your own school's class sizes from one year to another.  There's a range of class sizes that MCPS deems acceptable (varies across the grade levels) and sometimes schools are toward the bottom of the range and sometimes they are toward the top.  It's only if a given grade goes over the maximum that mcps would allocate another teacher (which would then push the whole grade down to the bottom of the range).

So you may personally experience a very small class followed by a very large class or vice versa, but this could simply be due to small changes in enrollment that put the school below the minimum (necessitating moving a teacher elsewhere) or above the maximum (necessitating hiring another one and spreading the students across more sections).[/quote]

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