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[quote=Anonymous]As someone who has a child in the 50-student classroom being discussed:

No one is arguing that these are not experienced teachers with great reputations. But that has no bearing as to whether grouping 50 children in a single classroom space intended for 25 is a good idea, or whether the teachers or the principal have been responsive to parent concerns (they haven't been).

On back to school night, the teachers didn't address their 50-student plan at all until parents asked about it, 25 minutes into a 30-minute session.  Their only explanation was that because of changes in classroom allocation, the teachers would otherwise have had to have classrooms right next to each other, and the potential  noise created by this might have bothered one of the teachers, who said she is noise-sensitive.

(Note that all the other classroom spaces in the school are configured this way, so it's not like this "problem" of adjacent classrooms would have been unique to the 3rd grade; it's just how the Lafayette space is set up inside.)  If there was a better instructional reason for combining the classes, the teachers didn't share it.

Also, no partitions were removed or moved  to create this classroom configuration.  All 50 kids are really, truly, in square footage intended for 25.

As the posts above illustrate, some parents are supportive of these teachers no matter what.  But others of us are terribly concerned and trying to figure out what to do next.

We have already talked to the teachers, who seem set on pursing this model.  We have spoken to the principal several times, who alternates between misstating the reality of the situation and telling us that we just need to trust her and the teachers.

Can anyone recommend a good education lawyer?
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