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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, and I prefer it that way. The most important concern is a privacy one.

Some parents can be excellent volunteers, but others are gossip, nosy and incompetent, and you never know who you will get.

I was educated in various European countries, where parents are non grata in classrooms.

However, I would be prepared to pay more in taxes for smaller classrooms. I believe this is the root cause of most problems in MCPS, namely the lack of differenciation/acceleration. Parent volunteers or professional classroom aides are a mere stop-gap measure and do not address every problem arising from too many students in the class.[/quote]

I agree.  I much rather they just track all the kids appropriately than get parents to help keep the troubled kids busy so the poor teacher can teach.  I think the bottom tracked class should have a lower ratio and a paraeducator the whole time instead of rotating to all classes. Then other tracked classes have a volunteer help if needed.  But that makes too much sense and would help everyone involved so it isn't something MCPS would consider[/quote]

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