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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in Chevy Chase, and I do get the rationale behind not permitting private funding for additional teacher. I also believe that high SES schools get huge benefits from the income disparities - whether through the ridiculous amount of after-school enrichment or through fundraising that buys lots of other educational-related goodies for the schools (something tells me CCES has more Promethean boards than a school with mostly FARMS kids.)

But I think it's also a bit bogus to trash on the OP and others who are unhappy with class sizes in the high SES MCPS schools. I understand the rationale for keeping class sizes low in lower SES areas, but that doesn't mean [b]it's appropriate to pack K classrooms to overflow levels in wealthier areas and say, oh screw those kids, their parents can supplement and they have more Promethean boards. [/b]
I don't know what the best or most appropriate formula is, and I'm not an MCPS hater either. But it doesn't seem as though the teacher imbalance is really making a dent in the achievement gap anyway.[/quote]

Nobody has said this.

However, if it is a priority for parents in the wealthy schools for their children to be in smaller classes for K-3, those parents already have options:

1. move to a Title 1 or focus school
2. apply for a COSA to a Title 1 or focus school[/quote]

Well, if that's the only alternative you find acceptable, then you are saying it's appropriate to pack as many K kids as possible into wealthier schools. [/quote]

+1  Like OP, I live in Bethesda.  I don't have quite the same level of concern about class size, and I am sympathetic to the principle of not allowing wealthier school clusters to buy more staff.  But it does annoy me that, at least on DCUM, people love to rally around knocking the Bethesda schools down a peg.  The kids are generally high-performing, so apparently they don't deserve any relief from some of the largest classrooms in the county.  Bethesda is comparatively rich, so everyone seems to think it is OK that its schools are horribly overcrowded ("If you don't like it, move.").  Or, Bethesda schools shouldn't be limited to people who live there, so let's bus more kids in or allow unmanaged development of high-density residences so more kids can benefit.  I actually support more workforce housing in Bethesda, but it makes me bonkers that there's no money coming in to address the fact that Bethesda has some of the most overcrowded schools anywhere.  Nobody thinks Bethesda needs any public resources, and yet the main things that are needed (expanded facilities, more staff) are the things that people in Bethesda are prohibited from contributing directly themselves.

But sure, let's just dump on OP and everyone else who lives in Bethesda.[/quote]

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