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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child's first grade class has 18 kids...we are MCPS and neither focus nor Title 1. It's not all doom and gloom out there folks.[/quote]

This is what bothers me - MCPS has a policy that tax collections are not tied directly to one school - the total collections are to be allocated across all schools so the richest areas don't have "more and better" and the poorest aren't left with nothing.  That is great.  In practice, however, the redistribution isn't equal.  All non-title 1 & focus schools should really have equivalent class sizes.  I'm fine with Focus schools & title 1 schools having even better ratios, as long as those are the same for all title 1 & all focus.  That would be an equal distribution of resources. [b] And it does seem the schools that are tagged as the wealthiest or the highest scoring are dealing with the largest class sizes. [/b] With few to no para educators to assist.  This has only been going on for a few years, but at some point, it will show up in the test scores, too.  It is simply bad practice.  Across the board, studies show that all groups learn better in smaller classes - those lagging behind, those on track & those ahead.  [/quote]

I don't think this is accurate.  If you look at the ESs in the Churchill cluster, a few are under capacity, and some of the class sizes are pretty small.  Same for some of the Wotton cluster ESs.[/quote]

Cold Spring in Potomac has 16 kids in their K classes. [/quote]

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