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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a wealthy school it’s a bit high but not by much.  We prefer small classes for our kids, so we chose a focus school.   16 kids in kinder and no more than 18 in first and second grades (and that’s after the class size expansion this year).  It never made sense to me to pay an extra $100k to live in Bethesda to have huge classes.  [/quote]

Only 100k? If most of the kids are at the same level and they do breakout groups for reading it can work. If there is a wide spectrum of abilities and a couple problem kids even 16 can be too many. That said K kids are more alike than different no matter the SES. Differences really start manifesting about 3rd grade, by middle school it’s quite apparent the differences. [/quote]

In the richer schools, often parents of struggling kids will put them in private or they have the money to hire an attorney to advocate for a different placement.   Many of the lower cost areas housing has gone way up so some of the housing cost more than Bethesda now.  All the schools have issues.[/quote]

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