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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can thank the school board.

This is what happens when school enrollment drops across the board.
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What’s frustrating is they would rather have 3 larger classes than 4 smaller ones because of $$$. Even after the loss of learning and the benefit to smaller sizes. [/quote]

If you can provide some info that people could use to contact the school board to prove this (or if you were willing to go to the local media), I'm sure parents would happily help you push for smaller classes.[/quote]

The thing is this decision course is not new and not pandemic linked. Perhaps your school was not already in this state, but our Vienna school has four kindergarten classes of 30 children every year. They start the classes at 25 or 26 for the first day of school and by Christmas there’s 30 in every class. The same thing happens every year because we are in a transient area. They could plan toward it and hire one more teacher but they never ever do.  They told me the classes wouldn’t be as crowded after kindergarten because the lack of an aid means they can’t put as many students in. And boom, our first grade class was 29…[/quote]

FCPS needs to approve that extra FTE and at 25-26, they probably wont. Then by the time the classes are up to 29-30, they're worried that their parents won't want to split the kids (@6 from each class) up to make a new class.[/quote]

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