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Anonymous wrote:large class sizes and multiple of the same grades scare me. can you imagine being 5 and released into a schoolyard of 200 other kindergarteners?

200 Kindergartners? So you're at a school with 8 kindergarten classes (assuming 25 kids in each)?

Rosemary Hills?

Anonymous wrote:Agree OP. We are in a great high school but it is overcapacity and most of my DCs classes have the max of 34 kids. Some of the classrooms don't even have enough desks. Generally 34 has been okay because DC is in challenging classes so the kids are smart and well behaved. But not ideal if the class is less well behaved.

My DS had 37 kids in a Freshman Chemistry class. They couldn't do all the experiments in the syllabus because they were unable to do them safely. There's definitely something wrong with that picture.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, public school is free so I guess you get what you pay for...

You must not be very smart. Public school is NOT free. Taxpayers pay a lot of money to support the public schools. Not free at all.

Unless you are in the minority in this country that actually pays taxes, it is free.
The fact that you can send your kids at no additional cost to you, other than the taxes you would pay whether you use the schools or not = free

Not the PP, but you are a little off base on this one.

I have one kid in public and one in private. I look at this way. If you are sending your kid to public, you are getting what you pay taxes for. If you send your kid to private, then you are paying for something that you are not using. It is not free either way.

Minority that actually pays taxes, huh? A little dramtaic and inaccurate and undermines your point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, public school is free so I guess you get what you pay for...

You must not be very smart. Public school is NOT free. Taxpayers pay a lot of money to support the public schools. Not free at all.

Unless you are in the minority in this country that actually pays taxes, it is free.
The fact that you can send your kids at no additional cost to you, other than the taxes you would pay whether you use the schools or not = free

My kid has 17 classmates in his 2nd grade class. Non Title I, but on the east side of the county.

Anonymous wrote:Agree OP. We are in a great high school but it is overcapacity and most of my DCs classes have the max of 34 kids. Some of the classrooms don't even have enough desks. Generally 34 has been okay because DC is in challenging classes so the kids are smart and well behaved. But not ideal if the class is less well behaved.

Not all "low level" classes are filled with poorly behaved, ignorant students.

No wonder Red Zone will stick around even under Starr's leadership.

Anonymous wrote:We have small class sizes at greenwood in brookeville (around 19). Not a title 1 or focus school...just lucky I guess. No portables, not near capacity. Great school, nice families.

While that area is growing, it doesn't come close to downtown areas of Silver Spring. Furthermore, you clearly don't have the diversity in Olney/Ashton/Brookeville that you do downcounty either. So the likelihood of a large ESOL population, for example, is slim to none.

So it's not luck; it's socioeconomics. Even Tanterra, which is definitely not hoity toity like other parts of Brookevills, has a stable community with little transience.

Anonymous wrote:please don't ask MoCo to collect more Tax. The more Tax collected will goes to the schools in red zoon only.

Stop capitalizing tax; it's annoying.

Furthermore, tax money does NOT go to red ZONE (not zoon) only.

You must be a moron. You're definitely illiterate.

Anonymous wrote:But wait till middle and high school. My DD in a "red zone" high school has 30 or more kids in most classes.

Secondary is a different world.

It's much easier to hire 1-2 elementary classroom teachers for . . . .let's say grades 2 and 3 than it is to hire 2 more English teachers, 3 more science, 1 more math - You get the picture.

Once you hit secondary, it's all about the content area/department, as teachers become specialized. So making class sizes smaller is harder. Furthermore, shifting around kids in a fairly complex scheduling environment causes disruptions in their schedules, which could put off graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, public school is free so I guess you get what you pay for...

You must not be very smart. Public school is NOT free. Taxpayers pay a lot of money to support the public schools. Not free at all.

It's all relative. The people sending to private pay 20-30k per child in addition to their taxes -- so in a sense public school IS free.

Anonymous wrote:Well, public school is free so I guess you get what you pay for...

You must not be very smart. Public school is NOT free. Taxpayers pay a lot of money to support the public schools. Not free at all.

Well, public school is free so I guess you get what you pay for...

please don't ask MoCo to collect more Tax. The more Tax collected will goes to the schools in red zoon only.

My son is in 1st grade at a non-Title I school and has 17 in his class. I was very pleasantly surprised. We moved this summer from a Title I school where he'd had 19/20 in his K class, and I expected a higher number this year. Its a small school, not over capacity, with a terrific Great Schools rating. And I bought a 4 bedroom house in great condition for $400k. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!

Anonymous wrote:large class sizes and multiple of the same grades scare me. can you imagine being 5 and released into a schoolyard of 200 other kindergarteners?

200 Kindergartners? So you're at a school with 8 kindergarten classes (assuming 25 kids in each)?