Anonymous wrote:

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

Big difference from when you were in schools - now kids are addicted to cell phones and MCPS refuses to ban them in schools

LOL these Ludits need to find a new hobby.

Anonymous wrote:And it will be the teachers fault if they are bouncing off the walls or being distracted on their phones

Maybe they could issue phones to kids that don't have them so the ones that don't care about school are busy watching tiktok instead of distracting others.

Anonymous wrote:

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

Big difference from when you were in schools - now kids are addicted to cell phones and MCPS refuses to ban them in schools

Touché

Anonymous wrote:

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.

She lives rent free in your head

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And it will be the teachers fault if they are bouncing off the walls or being distracted on their phones

Its both teacher's and students' fault but it is up to teachers to manage their classrooms and uphold expectations and standards. Many kids are behaving poorly as they are not held accountable and the adults don't care.

lol. That’s cute. 🙄 tell me you haven’t been in a secondary classroom without telling me you have been in a secondary classroom. How about PARENTS don’t care. Majority of issues boils down to that.

Stop bullying teachers and admin to get what you want. Work with teachers when they call you asking for help.

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

Once the division is created, and we've hired a director, assistant director, and assistants for the director and assistant director, then we'll hire a consulting firm to do a study!

I went to public school (NoVa area) and had large classes in the 80s and 90s. My mom was also a public school teacher.

Some big differences:

No cell phones, personal electronics existed

No inclusion/ ESL students, far behind students, extreme behavior problems in main steam classes

Discipline and consequences were enforced by admin

Respect for authority/ rules

Less parents contacting teachers. Outside of elementary school, parents were not contacting teachers. Email has created this issue.

Do you have additional support in the classroom?

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

Big difference from when you were in schools - now kids are addicted to cell phones and MCPS refuses to ban them in schools

Has synergy been updated already?

Anonymous wrote:

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!

That's always been how big they've been or even bigger. We've had up to 36. Start with a controlled structured classroom with expectations.

I know how to teach but I also know that post pandemic large classes are just management vs education. Behaviors are still so off the wall that the more kids the more buy into the stupid behaviors

Scratch that teachers many times do their jobs but admin doesnt support teachers and kids learn that they caan do anything and then admin fires the teachers.

Anonymous wrote:And it will be the teachers fault if they are bouncing off the walls or being distracted on their phones

Its both teacher's and students' fault but it is up to teachers to manage their classrooms and uphold expectations and standards. Many kids are behaving poorly as they are not held accountable and the adults don't care.

And it will be the teachers fault if they are bouncing off the walls or being distracted on their phones

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!

That's always been how big they've been or even bigger. We've had up to 36. Start with a controlled structured classroom with expectations.