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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Were there late additions they year they had over 30? I know at our school the Principal is always reminding people to register early so that they know how many kids they have and can hire a Teacher when they get over 31 kids in a class. The one year DS had a class of 31 was a year with a few late additions. He is also in a language immersion program so they use every seat possible in first grade because they know that they will be losing kids and they cannot replace those kids. He is in 5th grade this year and has 19 kids in his class. But we are at a small school, we would probably have 3 classes per grade without the language immersion program. Right now we have 4 classes a grade. [/quote]For a few of the years, they started over 30.  One year, they started at 34. [/quote]

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