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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the thoughtful responses. I do not at this moment have a favorite, but one thing that I liked about GDS is the small class size and teacher ratio. Doesn’t that mean more individual attention? Sidwell has up to 20 kids in a class in elementary with one teacher (this was said twice during admissions process). I don’t know how many kids are in the GDS classrooms, but the website says the teacher student ratio is 6:1. 
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Did something change? When my child was in lower school at Sidwell, there were 2 teachers per class. [/quote]

Yes. It has changed. It might revert after covid, but it's been like this for awhile[/quote]

22 kids in a class is the same as public school. One of the reasons we want to make the switch (and I'd wager a lot of parents want to) is so DC has a smaller class size with more teacher engagement. 22 kids, really??[/quote]

It’s not the same as public b/c even though there is 1 main teacher, there are plenty of other staff (reading specialist, math specialist, counselor, just to name a few) so that 1 teacher doesn’t have to be all things to all kids. In addition there are separate teachers/classrooms for science, art, language, and PE. The kids are often in smaller groups. E.g., group A goes to art, group B stays in the classroom for math, and a couple of kids in group B go to the math specialist.[/quote]

Hmm. So what percentage of the time is it 1 teacher with 22 kids at GDS in lower/middle school? They are not talking about this dynamic in any admissions sessions.

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