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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my child's school, the first grade classes (6 and 7 year olds) are a mess! This is the grade that includes all the kids whose parents didn't want them in virtual kindergarten and weren't able to do private the virtual year, so on top of the huge class sizes, there's a broad range of ages in this class - from the kids who are still 5 with birthdays next week to those that turned 7 halfway through Kindergarten last year. Our principal refused to hire an extra teacher despite the fact that last year's class sizes were also huge (but kindergarteners had an IA to help). It's awful, it's out of control, and there is no support for the poor first grade teachers. Is there anything we can do to petition the principal to hire a new teacher for next year? 30 kids in a first grade class is TOO MANY.[/quote]

Your coalition of parents needs to make noise and lodge complaints with Gatehouse.  Most principals are politicians and spin doctors and care only about their image and their career.  “Caring about the kids” is just a line.  While you are at it, lobby for these measures:

1. There needs to be a national mass purging of Ed.D. programs (if you don’t agree with me, go read your school principal’s dissertation on-line)

2. Public school systems need to figure out policies that prevent administrators from abusing their power for self-gain, and that stop rewarding them for manipulating policies that hurt education but inflate their statistics.[/quote]

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