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[quote=Anonymous]I wrote our representative (Michael Frey) and a few others requesting they raise the tax rate. No replies.

One of my children has autism, and is supposed to spend most of his day in the "mainstream" class. One year all the classes in his grade were maxed out-his class had 32 PLUS the three special ed students who came in to the class. That was his absolute worst year, he just couldn't deal with the crowd and he spent very little time in the big class.  The only factor different that year was the enormous class size. (We are not in McLean-we are in the Fair Lakes/Chantilly area).

The next year-his mainstream class was low 20s and he was a totally different kid but he basically lost a year of being educated with his non-disabled peers.

I totally understand the Title 1 schools having smaller class sizes but I do think there should be a hard max of 25 or so at all the non-Title 1 schools. They play games with the numbers to make it look like the class sizes are lower than they really are. [/quote]

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