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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reducing elementary class sizes by 1[/quote]

Reducing elementary class sizes is a good goal, but reducing them by one will have a negligible impact on classrooms. I'd want to see reductions of class size by 3-5 before I clap for Taylor.[/quote]

So by what amounts to another class?  Where are these other classes going to be placed in schools?[/quote]

If it's reducing class sizes by one, it just means going back to the guidelines in place a couple years ago before they raised them by 1.[/quote]

With declining enrollment, maybe this is just natural attrition in student numbers than any intentional action by MCPS.[/quote]

Class size is not the same as absolute size. A school can lose 100 kids and class sizes still stay the same. They just hire fewer teachers. The number of teachers they hire is based on the number of kids they have, and they are talking about adjusting this formula.[/quote]

Not sure what you mean. If the number of kids at a school drops, but the number of classroom teachers stays the same, the average class size will drop. That doesn't mean all class sizes at that school will drop, but you'd expect that trend over time. [/quote]

As the other poster said, this is how it works: in the spring, principals get their “allocation” number. It’s the number of teachers that their school will get the following year based on their population. If they lose population, then they lose a teacher. Those teachers are involuntarily transferred based on seniority, meaning that they have to go work at another school. [/quote]

I wonder if there will be enough attrition to support these transfers. The difference between the loss of positions from declining enrollment and adding more to elementary schools is about a 100 position loss. If teachers have tenure where will they go?[/quote]

MCPS doesn't post turnover data but presumably there are teachers retiring of their own accord every year. MCPS has about 14,000 teachers of which more than half have 20 or more years of experience. It would not surprise me if over 100 of them were retiring every year, actually I'd probably be more suprised if there are fewer than 100 retirements every year. [/quote]

Sorry, more than half of MCPS teachers have more than 15 years of experience, not more than 20.[/quote]

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