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You can find it funny if you want, but at least in the DCPS classrooms in the JKLMM's, they don't have 27 kindergarteners and one teacher in a classroom.   You're kidding yourself if you think we have it better.  Now, is there a vast imbalance in the schools from NW to NE in DC?  Yes.  Of course there is.  But there's a vast imbalance in the schools in Potomac versus Eastern Moco too.   This rule isn't preventing that.  All it's doing is making sure the classrooms in the "popular" schools are overcrowded.  Way to go.[/quote]

"Popular" schools? Most students in MCPS do not go to schools in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Potomac. They are not the popular schools; they are the schools in places where you can't live unless you're affluent.[/quote]
Use whatever term you want.  You know what I mean -- [b]the schools where they fill the classes right up to the cap limit[/b].  Some schools that doesn't happen because they don't have the same population.[/quote]

This does not happen only in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Potomac.[/quote]

NO ONE SAID IT DOES.   No one's arguing that only B, CC ,and Potomac should be allowed to do this.[/quote]

People are, however, saying that kindergarten class sizes in the schools in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Potomac -- or, if you want, the affluent areas in general -- are uniquely large. They're not. There are schools in much less affluent areas that have the same kindergarten class sizes.[/quote]

OMG.   No.  That is not what people are saying.  People are saying "I live in Bethesda, and my K classes are too large, why am I not allowed to do anything about that when I am willing to do something about that?"   I am sure there are schools in less affluent areas that also have large K classes (though not in the TItle 1 and Focus schools).   [b]I am ALL FOR letting anyone in any area fundraise for aides/teachers. [/b]  Not as the ideal or best solution.  The ideal or best solution is lowering class sizes for everyone, across the board, without having it be done by parent donations.  But that ain't happening.  [/quote]

Oh yes, that solves it.  Because the families of children at Weller Road Elementary and Broad Acres Elementary will easily fork over $2,000 each to buy additional teachers.  Right?[/quote]

Weller Road is Title 1.  It already has extra teachers.[/quote]

Do you sincerely believe that all of the families in the county can fundraise to buy additional teachers to the same extent that those in the most affluent schools can?[/quote]

No.  Of course not.  It will be to a different extent in different schools.  Which is why I would give my left hand to decrease class sizes across the board for all schools (you have no idea how hard I've worked to try to make that happen). But it's better than *no aides at all* which is what we have now. [/quote]

Reasonable people can and do disagree with you on whether buying teachers for your child in public school is better than not buying such teachers.

And FYI, in some schools, the extent to which parents can fundraise is zero.[/quote]

yes, I'm well aware that in some schools the extent is zero.  And those are Title 1 and Focus schools, who already (rightly) get more teachers/aides.  But, no, I do not think your disagreement is reasonable.[/quote]

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