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[quote=Anonymous]We live in Georgia. I sent my son to our neighborhood school for a week. It is about 30% white, 30% black, 20% latino, 10% other. I loved the diversity. It was well-run and has nice facilities.

His kindy class had 26 kids in it, and I was told there would likely be more by the end of the first week. The state mandates no more than 15 minutes a day for recess, which he only had if he didn't have PE, and PE was spent learning the procedures for a fire drill the first week. When I went to ask his teacher what the day was like near the end of that first week, she said she thought he was doing his work, but that she hadn't had time to spend with him.

This is a small-ish school system. Unlike those in the article, there aren't dozens of underenrolled schools to choose from. There are about 20 elementary schools city-wide, and all except the school with the highest percentage of special needs kids is full by the time school starts.

So, yes, we went to private, where his class had 18 kids and he had recess and PE in kindy every day. My biggest hesitation was the lack of diversity in his new school, but what was most important to me was that he love his first year of formal school.

I figured that on some level, taking one kid out of that overcrowded classroom was a boone for that teacher and that class.[/quote]

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