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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my child's school, the first grade classes (6 and 7 year olds) are a mess! This is the grade that includes all the kids whose parents didn't want them in virtual kindergarten and weren't able to do private the virtual year, so on top of the huge class sizes, there's a broad range of ages in this class - from the kids who are still 5 with birthdays next week to those that turned 7 halfway through Kindergarten last year. Our principal refused to hire an extra teacher despite the fact that last year's class sizes were also huge (but kindergarteners had an IA to help). It's awful, it's out of control, and there is no support for the poor first grade teachers. Is there anything we can do to petition the principal to hire a new teacher for next year? 30 kids in a first grade class is TOO MANY.[/quote]just wait until there are 34 in 4th. [/quote]

+1 there are 33 kids in my kid’s 4th grade class this year. It is ridiculous.[/quote]

And elsewhere in the county the class sizes are much smaller.

[b]If you don’t like it vote out the School Board that pays no attention to operations next year. [/quote][/b]

The School Board is not supposed to do operations!  Much of the mess that happened during Covid was caused by them inserting themselves into operations.  That is not in the scope of their role, other than oversight.[/quote]

This is not a Covid issue, come on. It's a school overcrowding issue. My kid had approx. 30-33 kids when in first, some of them non-native speakers, kids with all sorts of issues, no aids. We were literally crossing our fingers for more kids so they'd break up the class when they crossed the threshold for needing a new class - which eventually happened.

This is only going to get worse with all the townhome and high density building goin on in FFX Co., w/o the requisite changes in the school's capacities (not to mention the roads). It's going to be a f'ing nightmare and the Board of Supervisors, and anyone else involved in allowing it, should be utterly ashamed of themselves.[/quote]

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