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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 58 3rd grade students according to the data (22+21+15).

So you McLean people are advocating that we get two classes of 29 students each.  Who's being the jerk here?  And note that 29 students is over the 2015-16 FCPS class size cap.

Can we also get your rich student body so the PTA has a bunch of funding to pay for enrichment activities too?  How about we get all your other benefits - kids who are not hungry, in comfortable home settings, who don't have to learn finances so early in life because their family is just getting by economically, etc. etc.

You're just upset that your McLean snowflakes have more classmates than us common people.

Other schools in more moderate areas should push FCPS to get more staffing.  And perhaps Shrevewood families in that 22 person class may have a small gripe and ask about getting it down to 20 (but they currently don't bc it is not a meaningful difference to them).

You McLean people are in overcrowded schools because you don't want to redraw boundaries and move into "non-McLean" schools.  What would it do to your self image, property values, etc. if your kids aren't going to a McLean school?  Simple solution is to redraw boundaries and spread those kids around and, gasp!, go to schools like Westgate and Lemon Road and Timber Lane and even Shrevewood.

But instead you agitate to keep your kids in those McLean schools, kick out kids who you don't believe "deserve" to be in "your" McLean schools (see Haycock), complain about class sizes, agitate for more teachers, agitate for more physical space and then complain about trailers, etc. etc.

I ask again, who is being the jerk here?  [/quote]

I'm the one who called you a jerk and I don't live in Mclean. And I can't afford a $800,000 plus home on Holly Manor Drive. There are plently of expensive homes in Shrevewood and surrounding areas. You're being a jerk because you think it's acceptable that your school made a special class well under the 26.75 staffing ratio or even 24:1 staffing ratio at Shrevewood just for AAP students and don't realize that by doing that they increased class sizes at other grades. K and 1st at your school are very large. Furthermore, we are being told that FCPS can't afford to give teachers to our school because the staffing reserve is all used up. It's a little hard to understand this when we read about AAP classes under 20 students around the county. I don't get why this school was so excited about going to Haycock for years for AAP with those wealthy McLean kids and then a parent now says to just suck it up with classes over 30 in other areas so they can have some private school size class of AAP students at Shrevewood.[/quote]

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