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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cap may be 28 for 1st and 2nd graders but our school has 30 1st graders in each class. If more students join later in the year, there will be no change. MCPS doesn't respect the cap.

This isn't the first time that MCPS has raised class sizes to pay for a raise. It happened 3-4 years ago too. Its very dishonest to pretend its just one more student. I understand that MCPS doesn't care about students but don't fool yourself into thinking that parents are fine with 30 6-7 year olds in one class. They are angry and sick of MCPS. [/quote]

It's not a cap. It's the limit for teacher allocation, which is done in the spring for the following year. Does MCPS respect these limits? I don't know; you'd have to ask somebody who deals with teacher allocations. But MCPS doesn't have a crystal ball. There is no way for them to know how many students will join after the teachers are allocated. I suppose they could allocate based on best guesses from the past few years. Maybe they actually do do this? I don't know that either.

Also, there are surely many parents who are angry and sick of MCPS, but please don't assume that you speak for everybody. I don't know anybody who thinks that MCPS is perfect (including me), but I know a lot of people who are generally satisfied with their children's schools.[/quote]

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