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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No doubt that the schools in McLean are good.  My only concern was the large class sizes and my children not having one on one attention in their early years.  I strongly believe it is important for a child to be in a nurturing environment and I never saw that in public schools.  I am also a strong believer in having a solid foundation in the early elementary years. With 30+ kids in public schools this makes it impossible. These were my reasons for sending my kinds to private schools from k-3.  Now that they are in public schools.  I look back and I have no regrets at all.  It was worth every penny.

If you can afford to send your kids to private in the early years, do it.  It is a wonderful investment in your child's education.  With that said, if you can not afford it, the public schools here in fairfax county is a good alternative.  Just give them at home what they may not be getting at the public school.[/quote]

I have never seen a public elementary school in NOVA with over 30 or even 30 students in the classroom. [/quote]

To the latter poster.... it was common for years for the kindergarten classes in my children's FCPS to have 28-29 kindergarteners in a class (yes, I know that is not "over 30").  In second grade my DD's class had 30 (with a pretty inexperienced teacher and a couple of behavior-challenged kids).  Other than that, my kids typically have had b/t 21-26 kids in their classes.  I've learned that the reason the kinderg. classes were so large for years was because of the way the former principal used the funds that were given to her.  Now, with a different principal, the kinderg. classes have low-20s (they always have had on assistant).  So, yes, there are classes with 30, but it is not typical.... and it is highly dependent on where the principal wants to spend the money.  If they decide to make bigger classes, they can put more money into assistants, reading specialists, and adv. academic teachers (which are "extras" at the school).  If they choose to hire another teacher for a certain grade, they have less money to spend on other programs/staff.  [/quote]

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