MCPS needs to create a central office division to investigate ways to reduce class size.

Anonymous wrote:I was in classes that size, in MoCo, in the 70's. I learned. Please teach.

Back then students were actually disciplined. Not anymore. Admins are too busy do they just send the kids back to class which just encourages more bad behavior. Our admin often can’t even get a parent on the phone at all during the school day. Nobody answers or the numbers are disconnected.

Anonymous wrote:Non classroom teacher here. My caseload already exceeded the recommendations last year, now will be about double.

Non classroom mcea members continue to get hosed by MCPS. No one cares about you guys. It sucks. I’m sorry

Non classroom teacher here. My caseload already exceeded the recommendations last year, now will be about double.

I was in classes that size, in MoCo, in the 70's. I learned. Please teach.

And yet how does this get published to parents? Last year we had to ask our child. And we were shocked with classes this big before the +1.

Anonymous wrote:I just saw my class sizes for the year (middle school)

29, 32, 32, 32, 33

This is to say: I will not be teaching your kid this year. I’ll be managing behaviors for 50 minutes and hoping information gets transferred at least once a day.

Here’s to a great school year!

My high school classes area 34, 35, 35, 36, 36...but at least Monifa got her million plus.

Anonymous wrote:I just saw my class sizes for the year (middle school)

29, 32, 32, 32, 33

This is to say: I will not be teaching your kid this year. I’ll be managing behaviors for 50 minutes and hoping information gets transferred at least once a day.

Here’s to a great school year!

I am imagining this like the "Mean Mrs. Jewls" episode/chapter of Wayside School where the teacher has the goal of teaching just three new things that day and that is asking too much.

https://wayside-school.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mean_Mrs._Jewls

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Anonymous wrote:That's in line with what they announced in June.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2023-2024/Community-Message-20240612.html

Yup. Last year my classes were average 28. Other teaches should post here so people know how the one person class size increase from June is actually impacting their kids

Most of my classes growing up here back in the 80s were 35-40.

In the 80's we didn't have full inclusion. Children that were years behind or had major behaviors were put in different classes. It is not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's in line with what they announced in June.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2023-2024/Community-Message-20240612.html

Yup. Last year my classes were average 28. Other teaches should post here so people know how the one person class size increase from June is actually impacting their kids

Most of my classes growing up here back in the 80s were 35-40.

Anonymous wrote:I just saw my class sizes for the year (middle school)

29, 32, 32, 32, 33

This is to say: I will not be teaching your kid this year. I’ll be managing behaviors for 50 minutes and hoping information gets transferred at least once a day.

Here’s to a great school year!

What? That looks like there should be one more class for the grade.

How big is a difference is this from your class sizes last year, OP? Because Felder promised we’d only increase class sizes by one student per class.

Anonymous wrote:That's in line with what they announced in June.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2023-2024/Community-Message-20240612.html

Yup. Last year my classes were average 28. Other teaches should post here so people know how the one person class size increase from June is actually impacting their kids

That's in line with what they announced in June.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2023-2024/Community-Message-20240612.html

I just saw my class sizes for the year (middle school)

29, 32, 32, 32, 33

This is to say: I will not be teaching your kid this year. I’ll be managing behaviors for 50 minutes and hoping information gets transferred at least once a day.

Here’s to a great school year!