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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are 5th grade parents and wondering about the middle school experience at APS in regards to class size and how well teachers know their students?  Our DD really thrives when she has personal investment from her teachers, and when she has had more aloof teachers she has struggled to stay motivated.

It’s a bad dynamic I know, and we are working with a therapist on building her executive function and motivation outside of having a nurturing teacher — the real world is certainly not full of people who care about how you do.

But at least for now, if you are a quiet kid, how well will your core subject teachers “know” you. Like English, math, history?  I’ve heard there can be 30 kids in a class, and that each teacher can teach 6 class — so that’s 180 students?  Is there a lot of discussion in class, to engage quiet students? Small group work or projects where teacher floats around and works with them?  Teachers are really good at knowing a lot of students, but this sure seems like a LOT of kids. [/quote]

While they may know your kid, no teacher can provide consistent, meaningful feedback to that many students. Even spending 5 minutes per student to grade their papers results in many, many hours of unpaid work.

So those “meaty” writing assignments you all describe? Teacher slaps a “Well done!” sticker on top without actually reading it.

Guess how things turn out when your 4.0 student arrives to college. Womp.[/quote]

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