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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]As I read the original post, there is an assistant in the room, so the staff to student ratio is 19:1.  
 
 
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37 is still not acceptable.  Especially not when there are schools with less than 15.[/quote]

I keep seeing this number thrown around - schools with fewer than 15 kids in a classroom. I know of no general education classrooms that have fewer than 15 kids, and we are at a school with a high percentage of FRM eligible students. I'm beginning to think that the 15 student classroom is like the Lock Ness Monster or Bigfoot - people catch glimpses but no one has actually had a child in one. If you are, I'd love to hear it. Even at our school, while the published class size average is 19 for our school, that does not take into account the many SPED eligible children that are mainstreamed, and are in the classrooms for the full day, as the FCPS way of counting kids for SPED vs. Gen Ed does not include the SPED kids in the ratio, at least on the Dashboard. So at our school, where our count is listed at 19 average, my oldest child's classroom has 27 and the other class has 28 in there, and this is with ALL of the children accounted for. If they did a true class size average, including the kids that are in the classroom all day, our school average is closer to 25 due to a very high number of SPED eligible kids that are not in a contained classroom. So while I'd love to see the classroom with 14-15 kids in it. I'm not sure that this really exists. Does anyone in FCPS actually have a Gen Ed classroom with 15 kids in it? [/quote]

Sleepy Hollow Elementary in Falls Church has several Gen Ed classes that are around that size.[/quote]

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