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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So they don't speak for everyone in McLean, but they aren't totally pulling this stuff out of a hat, either.  The very large class sizes in McLean schools are a major source of concern among many parents.   [/quote]

But the data presented on their associated website misrepresents the facts.

I have not had the time to review all 4,103 rows of data, but a cursory look at just a quarter of the data shows case after case where they have labeled a classroom as "20 or under" as they are viewing a single classroom among several classrooms in the same grade. What they should have done (instead) is look at the grade as a whole (therefore, look at the classrooms in a cluster), and try to identify specific instances where there is "20 or under" scenarios across the entire grade [b]and[/b] by reaggregating the total number of students in the grade would reduce the number of classrooms in the grade by at least one classroom. Through the quarter of rows of data I have reviewed thus far, there were no such instances.[/quote]

Both types of analyses might be interesting, but the information on the other website is still telling and [b]does not, by itself,  misrepresent anything[/b].  [/quote]

I respectfully disagree.

Stating that other schools in the county have class sizes of 15, 16, 17 (etc.) is accurate. However, the data shows how the total number of classrooms for a grade would NOT change by putting-children-in-seats like eggs in an egg carton, with the last classroom in a grade level having a very small number of students. I would expect any principal to attempt to distribute the number of children in a grade across all the classrooms resulting in roughly the same number of students in each classroom.[/quote]

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