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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public. [/quote]

How many classes are there? [/quote]

2 6th grade classes.[/quote]

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.[/quote]

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.[/quote]

My bad, I checked with another parent, there are 3 6th grade classes. Sorry about the confusion but each around 16-18.[/quote]

FCPS needs to address these major discrepancies - my child's has four 6th graded classes of 25-30 children each. Incredibly unfair. We'd like one of your teachers that you don't need, thanks.[/quote]

Just be quiet. Your entitlement is so annoying. [/quote]

No, sorry. This isn't about entitlement, it's about equity. And the fact that you probably don't know how to do math. Let me break it down for you, uneducated sweet summer child:

Rich kid school: 3x16 = 48. Could be 2 classes of 24 which is a great size!
socioeconomically diverse school: 3x28=84. Could be 4 classes of 21 students.

That seems a little more fair to me. You are not entitled to tiny classes because you live in a big house that daddy (oops, I mean husband) paid for.[/quote] It has nothing to do with  rich kids.  It is all dependent upon the formula.  My kids went to Chesterbrook (tons of rich kids) and every class they had was 25-34 students (K-5 for one and k-6 for the other).  The grade ahead and behind them had smaller classes because there were fewer children in those grades, but not fewer enough to warrant losing a class.   There will always be discrepancies because there are always different numners of children in each grade in each school. [/quote]

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