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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are correct that schools with lower FARMS rates offer a better education to all the kids in the school.

But those schools with low FARMs rates are not "Title 1" and don't get the benefits from that program including the smaller class size. [/quote]

Is this smaller class size for Title One school a VA thing?  I teach in a MD school with appr. 95% FARMS and there is no cap on class sizes.  One 2nd grade class currently has 32 students.[/quote]

[b]In Fairfax, they cap the class sizes for title one schools. Some schools are as low as a cap of 15 students and many are under 21. [/b]Plus they give many of these classes an extra assistant, individual computers, and they basically run a PTA out of the schools with additional trained personnel. Many people think it's unfair when other schools have 34-36 student class sizes and the teachers can't handle the high class size. They agree that the class sizes should be smaller at title one schools, but think the discrepancy is too much.

How do you feel about 32 children in a 2nd grade class? Isn't that against MD state laws? I've read MD state laws and they do not allow this.[/quote]

You have no idea what you're talking about. There are 43 Title 1 schools where the K-3 classes have a cap. Of the 43, one has a cap at 19 and one has a cap at 20 (Hybla Valley and Lynbrook respectively). All the other 41 schools have a cap of 21 or higher. There may be classrooms where there are 15 students. But there are NO schools where class sizes are capped at 15. Please stop posting things you don't know. [/quote]

[b]So sorry that I got 19 verses 15 wrong if that's the case. [/b]It says in the budget document that title one schools can have a cap of less than 21 students depending on their FARM rate and there are definitely schools with way less than that. I was reading there are classes with even 14 students. How they got there, I don't know, but clearly they do exist with assistants in those classrooms while other schools of the same grade have over 30 students.[/quote]
No, you also got the "many under 21" wrong. Only 2 of the 139 elementary schools have a class cap at K-3 below 21. If there are assistants in the classroom, it's because there are special education inclusion students who have service hours that need to and can be met by a special education teacher OR special ed instructional assistant. There are no schools where assistants are just randomly placed in small classrooms simply because they are in a Title 1 school. [/quote]

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