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[quote=Anonymous]Another issue is that MoCo is really built up in a lot of areas (and real estate is crazy expensive), so they just can't just build more schools.  There's been a lot of population growth, with lots of families -- they're building onto the schools they have, but that only helps so much.  They added a new wing to our school, but it's still packed.

Also, as another PP commented -- it wasn't all milk and honey with class sizes when we were kids.  I had 42 in my 4th grade class, with one super crazy teacher - and that was way out in a small city in fly-over zone.  And my grandmother taught in the '60s and had 50 kids in one full-day Kindergarten classroom -- not only did she not have an assistant, she had to share the cafeteria with the other K class, with only blackboards to divide up the 100 kids into the 2 classes.  (I would have gone cuckoo for cocoa-puffs after day 1 teaching in that madhouse.)  That was in a state that is well-known for the quality of its public education system.  There wasn't as much focus on class size until the 1980's, I believe.

That said, I agree that it would be great if we could get smaller classes -- I would double my taxes to cut the class sizes in half!

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