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[quote=Anonymous]My kids have had about that number in their classrooms from kindergarten through third grade, and so far, no, it's not chaos at all. The teachers have all done an excellent job. No, it's not like a private school with 10 or 15 kids per teacher, but the teachers have done a damn good job given the demands. They have also done a good job of differentiating the needs of the students and offering different levels of challenge. Like many on here (don't laugh) I think my children are at the high end, ability-wise, and feel that the school does not offer them an ideal education given their abilities. However, the teachers need to teach in the best interests of everyone, not my children alone, and given the limited resources and the demands on them, I think they really do a great job. 
   My kids were at Rosemary Hills for K-2 (one is still there). That's an enormous school serving only K-2. This year they have 10 kindergarten classes, and 9 first grade classes (and 9 second grade?) All are around 25 kids. But when you visit, the classes are orderly and calm. The kids are engaged and learning, and also still having fun. (The only time approaching chaos was the kindergarten lunch time, if you can imagine 225 kindergartners eating lunch at the same time. But the noise that bothered me was more the shouting paraeducators than it was the children. And now this year they have divided the kindergarten class into two lunch shifts so that it's more reasonable.)[/quote]

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