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Of course I accept that people may choose to have a smaller environment for their child and there are certainly advantages to it.  If that's worth the price of tuition, then you should do it.  Absolutely.  Most kids probably would benefit from smaller class sizes.  My beef is with the assertion that it is terrible to be in a school where there are 300 other kids in the same grade.  It doesn't matter if there are 300 kids of the same age in the same grade --- they aren't in the same classroom.

The total enrollment/size of the school certainly influences how well your child will be known... I agree with you there.  But the question isn't "how many total kindergarteners are there?".  The relevant questions are "how many kids will there be in my kid's class?
 AND "how big is the total enrollment of the school?".  Getting stuck on the fact that there are 200 kindergarteners in a public school is a red herring.  They may have 20 kids in a class and they may have the same overall enrollment as a private.[/quote]

Actually, at Rosemary Hills, there are 27-28 Kindergartners per classroom with one teacher per class and one teacher's aid who floats between several classrooms.  All the Kindergartners have lunch and recess together, so yes, there are times of the day when my child would be one of 220 kids.

I don't necessarily think it's terrible to be at a school with 300 (or 200 or 500) kids in the same grade.  But I do think a child will have a different, and in many ways better, experience where that child- her strengths, weaknesses, quirks, etc- are known not only to her teacher, but also to the administrators who will be doing her classroom assignment for next year, the school counselor, the "specials" teachers, the athletic coaches.  [/quote]

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