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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In social studies DD loves playing trivia on early civilizations after completing research and report on Aztecs.

In science after learning about circulatory system they have a project to measure their pulse rates and resting and active states and analyze and graph the data.

In French they brought yoga mats and learned words through poses - chair, airplane, etc.

In math they play games and are covering material ahead one grade.

In language arts they wrote stories about dramatic event in their lives and are publishing a book.

In music they had a recorder concert and are learning to play ukulele.

There is no confirmation bias here. I love how private school teachers work hard to make learning interesting and engaging.

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I should add that in public they didn’t have nearly as many projects and with 30 kids in class some of whom had behavior issues they never played any games.  They just did worksheets.[/quote]

Private class sizes are definitely smaller. However, 30 is rare. I have 3 kids and have never gotten close to 30. My kids have been in classes as small as 19 and largest was 26. Kids have 23 and 22 kids in their classes this year. I’m glad my kids have an opportunity to meet friends.

My good friend sends her daughter to a very small private. There are only 2 classes per grade and less than 20 students per class. There are only 16 girls in the entire grade and it sounds like there are a lot of hurt feelings about being left out or being in the wrong class. Granted there is mean girls behavior everywhere it seems like her daughter is stuck with this small group of people through 12th grade!![/quote]

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