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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't think you could get a choice. If there are 27 kids, you have a class with 27 kids. Can you actually refuse a class for number?[/quote]

It's a policy at our Arlington Elementary school not to go above 23 kids or they create a new class.  My son's class has 21-- teacher, full-time aide and floating reading/lit teacher that pops in K classes.  There are a few in the 19 kid range.  We chose the school system for smaller class sizes.  Our PTA, along with other Arlington elem. fought hard with the Board to prevent raising class size.  It worked.  A few new schools are slated to be built, a few additions at a couple schools and temporary trailers at a few particular schools as a temporary fix to keep the class sizes down.[/quote]

Arlington will have a hard time maintaining class size at 23 in the next few years until they get schools built.  We are talking growth in arlington county that just can't be solved by adding a few seats to classes.  There is going to be boundary changes which will get parents all sort of bent out of shape.[/quote]

Read arlnow.com today.  We have squashed at each impasse.   It will not happen.  They have been talking boundary changes for the last couple of decades.  It is a pro-active, very wealthy county that invests heavily in education.  I am not worried.  They would add an additional teacher classroom before that let ratios get as whack as some of the other counties--- but they are aggressively coming up with additions that will be done in a year or so and schools by 2016 should help current baby boom.   They also have hired private investigator to get rid of the high number of false residency claims.[/quote]

Ashlawn comes on line in 2014 with 225 seats, there definately not enough students w/in their boudaries to fill it.  They are building a new elementary at Williamsburg, where do you think the kids are going to come from?  Boundary changes, it's clear in all the poposals that there will some.  Also, take a close look at the capacity numbers in 2012/2013/2014 at the already crowded schools, they have an issue before the schools come online.[/quote]

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