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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are mis-analyzing the "1 of 200" kids.  Using Rosemary Hills as an example, there are about 650 students.  When you say your child is one of 200 or one of 300, it doesn't really matter from your child's perspective b/c they are actually 1 of 20-25 students b/c that's how many are in their class.  Someone mentioned lunch/recess and the chaos they imagined from being 1 of 200-300.  I have news for you!  When you are in a public school, every kid is one of 650-850.... however, they are not all eating lunch at the same time or on the playground at the same time.  They stagger the lunch/recess times b/c they don't make the cafeterias big enough to hold everyone.  It IS a plus to be in a school like Rosemary Hills (I'm not in that school or even in Md.), b/c the kids your little kindergartener are tangentially interacting with are closer in age than in a "normal" elementary school -- where there are also 650-850 kids.  In a "normal" elementary school, your shrimpy kindergartener (yes, I have one of those) is loosely mixing with 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders (hallways mainly).

A school like Rosemary Hills, that focusses on the lower elementary grades and has more of them IS ideal in many ways.  (Not so great for families of kids in upper elmentary and lower elementary, but great for the kids).  Having had 2 kids go through the lower elementary grades, I maintain my position that the size of the entire grade would make no difference to my child's experience.

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but do you accept that kids (and the adults they become) are different and have different needs?  all that chaos may indeed be good for some, but others will be lost or forgotten about (like mine, in all likelihood, because he's reserved and independent and will happily sit in the corner and read while his classmates learn letter sounds). most elementary schools were not designed to hold that many kids and most 5th graders are really not all that great an influence on shrimpy kindergartners (nor do they want to be).

my kid will be in K in a school in VA that is at 140% capacity, with "only" about 120 K'ers.   they have lots of trailers for the older kids, which cuts into playground space, so all 120 (and likely older kids, too) or so will be outside together for recess crammed into about 1/4 - 1/3 of the space that was originally intended for fewer kids.

my point is only that some kids don't do well in large environments and if parents want to choose a smaller environment, it is no reflection on or criticism of the choices you have made for your kids.

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