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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ok, but to get class sizes down, we need more teachers, which means more money.

Do you have a money tree somewhere?

We need more revenue streams.[/quote]

The request is not to reduce class sizes across the board.  The request is to reduce the disparities in class sizes, which would mean that class sizes would go down in some areas and up in others.  Why does that require a money tree? [/quote]

Sounds like people in Mclean don't understand the difference between "fair" and "equal".[/quote]

Since the resolution acknowledges the concept of needs-based staffing, and does not request class-size parity, I'd say they do.   In the last election, they also re-elected a School Board member who favors spending extra resources on schools with higher concentrations of low-income kids (Janie Strauss), and rejected a challenge from a candidate who made reducing the class sizes in Dranesville schools a central focus of her campaign (Louise Epstein).

But, with the imbalances in class sizes having grown even larger, more people now feel that changes are needed.   [/quote]

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