Reply to APS Neighborhood Elementary School- writing assignments and presentations

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "APS Neighborhood Elementary School- writing assignments and presentations "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m trying to learn about the neighborhood elementary schools in Arlington.  I’ve been browsing this forum and I gather that there are generally no textbooks or homework (other than light reading) and that it can vary quite a bit from there.

Can anyone describe what kind of writing your child is doing in elementary school?  Are there in-school writing assignments?  Do they have clubs like student newspaper or book clubs?  Are there book reports?  Are there drama classes or other opportunities for public speaking or presentations?

It sounds like it’s a whole new world compared to when I went to school!  Grateful for any feedback.  Most of what I see on this forum are complaints. [/quote]

We left APS to go private - although there was a lot of writing done in DD's class, there was hardly any correction by the teacher (grammar/punctuation/sentence structure/spelling). It seemed that the teacher was focusing on creativity of content, but neglected proper writing techniques. This went on for two consecutive grades. [/quote]

That’s always been my concern — when do teachers have time to read 30 kids essays?[/quote]

OP here.  Are there really 30 kids in ES classrooms?  It looks like they top out at 24 in all the reports I could find.  [/quote]

Well our kindergarten has 27 kids so that seems optimistic [/quote]

Last year planning factor (not max)  WERE 26/26/28/28/30/30. But for 2023 they apparently went down to 24/24/26/26/28/28. [/quote]

Does that mean the average class size for Kindergarten is 26 students to 1 teacher? In a title 1 school are there 2 teachers?[/quote]
All kindergarten classes have a teacher and an assistant. (And usually ELL or SPED pushing in for part of the day) My non-title I school has K classes with 19-21 students. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics