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[quote=Anonymous]At many schools going up to 30+ students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade is a problem too. Our school also experienced the situation with several students entering in after the spring/summer allocation being made and class sizes being way larger than the ratio. Raising them again puts them even farther into the unrealistic zone.

DS was in a compacted math class last year with 30 students. They all did fine because they were at the same level, advanced in math and none needed any individual attention from the teacher. They were happy to work in a math oriented group of kids independently and the teacher could give them interesting things to do because they all already knew the material. They were however packed like sardines into the classroom. You could walk between the rows.

There is no way that this many kids will work in regular classrooms where there is a wide range of skills. The rooms at many schools were never designed to pack this many kids into them. There aren't enough cubbies, desks are put in strange places where they can't see the board. There is no way that the art room can do the same projects with even more students.

I agree its worse for the youngest students but the upper elementary kids are being screwed too. MCPS sucks. [/quote]

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