Reply to 5th Grade Departmentalization

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "5th Grade Departmentalization "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child already switches classes for math in third. Is this how all schools in MCPS do it?[/quote]

Many schools do, but not all schools. It is up to the principal.[/quote]
To expand upon this, different schools have different needs. The number of students in a grade, student academic needs, and staffing allocation decisions within the school can lead to departmentalization making sense in one school, but not so much in another.[/quote]

Elementary SDT here… staffing allocations have nothing to do with it. If we have allocations for 4 teachers, we don’t need additional teachers for departmentalization. There would be the same number of students. It just requires scheduling. It should absolutely be uniform across the county. [/quote]

I disagree. As others have pointed out different schools/different grades/different years have different needs so one school one year might have a two full classes of kids in compacted math and another school might have three kids in compacted math. An extreme example is if it's a school with only two classes per grade you can't allocate one teacher for a compacted math class if that means the other class will be over capacity. I think it makes sense the county gives schools this flexibility.[/quote]

How does compacted math work then if only a few kids qualify? Who teaches the class?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics