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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 1st-3rd grade classes with 10 students in them and others with over 30. It's gotten completely out of whack and I don't blame parents for being upset. There should not be that much discrepancy. I haven't read the demand, but most parents just think things need to be shifted a bit so that all class sizes are a bit more manageable and the difference between the largest and smallest class size in FCPS for the same grade is a little smaller than 20 plus students.[/quote]

Where are there 1st - 3rd grade classes with 10 students in them?  That's BS unless you are talking about classes of students with significant disabilities.[/quote]

Not the PP, and I don't recall seeing information about classes with 10 kids.  There are classes in some parts of the county with fewer than 15 kids and less than 1/2 the number of students that are in classes elsewhere in the county.

http://classsizecounts.com/?page_id=7[/quote]

Some examples from that report. Bucknell has numerous classes around 12 students including a 6th grade class. Fort Hunt has 12 kids in one class. Herndon has a 2nd grade class of 10. Weyanoke has a 5th grade class of 14. These include any level 2 students. They may have changed during the year, but at this snapshot, these were the numbers while other classes in the county at that same time were at 30-37 children.[/quote]

And yet, no one from McLean would deign to send their children to Weyanoke, Herndon, or Bucknell. They need to leave Title 1 schools out of this discussion.[/quote]

There's nothing in Title I that requires class sizes that small, and it's the county's decision to assign so many teachers to Title I schools and so few to schools elsewhere in the county.

It's past-time to put this all on the table.  School Board members who don't acknowledge things are seriously out of whack should turn in their resignations.  [/quote]

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