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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MCPS Board rejected a request from the principal of my child's ES for additional staffing for the 18-19 school year.  So, given current enrollment numbers, there are going to be 30-31 students in my child's fourth grade class, as well as in a few other grades, which exceeds MCPS's own guidelines.  And typically we get a few additional students in the class during the school year, so that number will get even higher.  Do other MCPS ES classrooms have 30+ students?   [/quote]

This is disturbing and new. It's been pretty unusual to go into the school year already exceeding the recommendations which I think is 29 for 4th grade. It's not uncommon for them to end the year at those numbers due to more children moving in during the school year. Have you talked to the principal about whether she has thought about mixed-grade level classes? Sometimes if the year above or below, in this case 3rd or 5th, has smaller classes they have some room to rearrange things. Adding a "class" for key subjects could also help. One year when our DD ended up with the max they ended up pulling 5 kids from each class to make an extra section for writing and reading. In terms of staffing this should be doable as even an administrator or a sub could teach this for 1-1.5 hours a day.[/quote]

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