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Yes, of course, all parents wish that the teacher could spend more time with our children, individually, or at the least in a small group setting.  Unfortunately, the reality in many school districts is that the schools are overcrowded.  We used to live in a wealthy district with very little farms/esol population. The classes in that district was still fairly large, and the kids hardly got any individual attention.  I agree with a PP, the issue is that mcps has gotten too big.  This is not a curriculum or teacher issue.  There is no large school district that does not have overcrowding issues in the classes. It's not physically possible for a teacher to spend more time with each child or small group with the class sizes that we have.   This is a budget issue.  We need more classrooms and/or more teachers or para-teachers.  This is really the only really effective way to allow a teacher to spend more time with each child or small group.[/quote]

You are conflating

1. size of school district
2. capacity of school building
3. class size

They are three separate issues.[/quote]
And they are all inter-related due to the size of the population.  You have x number of kids, y number of classrooms, and z number of buildings.  You cannot reduce the class sizes without increasing the number of classrooms, and you cannot increase the number of classrooms without adding more rooms to a building.   The x number of kids is getting larger and larger in mcps.  Look at the enrollment numbers over the past several years in mcps.  It has been getting bigger and bigger, but the capacity of the buildings haven't been able to keep up.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/demographicpdfs/Demo_BOEDemographicPresentation101315.pdf[/quote]

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