The current FCPS budget calls for increased class sizes

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Anonymous wrote:Cooper is not scheduled for a renovation for years, and yet they want to turn it into a Level IV center overnight over the next year or two and dump about 200-300 kids there. Hope your kids enjoy trailers!

If it happens over a few years, that won't be overnight, will it? You sound like a particularly miserable troll.

You sound more unpleasant than the PP you were calling a name. The truth is Cooper is not even scheduled for a renovation.

The tone of the prior post was ridiculous. If Cooper gets AAP phased in over a couple of years, it won't be turned into an AAP center overnight. No one will get "dumped" there and the reference to trailers is ironic, since there have certainly been trailers at Kilmer and Longfellow. And Cooper is definitely identified for a renovation in the latest Capital Improvement Plan.

So either someone is just whining again about their AAP kid getting moved out of Kilmer or Longfellow or just looking for an excuse to bash FCPS.

And you sound like a school administrator or Jane Strauss trying to argue for local level IV and all of its dubious merits-not a current Churchill parent. Sorry, but a lot of us aren't drinking the Kool Aid that Cooper is going to become the next Longfellow or Kilmer in the next year-it will take years to rise to the same caliber. Also, no renovation is planned for at least 5-6 years. Stick to facts and not urban myths.

It should also be noted that the third-sixth grades have more AAP classes that GE classes (for example, 4 out of 6 in 4th grade are AAP). The size differential between AAP and GE classes varies-last year in 3rd, the AAP classes were all bursting at the seams with about 30-31 apiece while GE had 24-25, but then in 4th GE classes are larger and AAP at 24-25.

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Anonymous wrote:Can some people post grade and class size at Churchill so I can get an idea of the average sizes?

As of September, probably a few kids have added:
K 4 classes 24-25
1st 3 27-28
2nd 4 classes 23-24
3rd 5 classes 26-27
4th 6 classes 26-27
5th 6 classes 24-25 (1/6 had 23)
6th 6 classes 30-32

This is great! Thank you so much!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooper is not scheduled for a renovation for years, and yet they want to turn it into a Level IV center overnight over the next year or two and dump about 200-300 kids there. Hope your kids enjoy trailers!

If it happens over a few years, that won't be overnight, will it? You sound like a particularly miserable troll.

You sound more unpleasant than the PP you were calling a name. The truth is Cooper is not even scheduled for a renovation.

The tone of the prior post was ridiculous. If Cooper gets AAP phased in over a couple of years, it won't be turned into an AAP center overnight. No one will get "dumped" there and the reference to trailers is ironic, since there have certainly been trailers at Kilmer and Longfellow. And Cooper is definitely identified for a renovation in the latest Capital Improvement Plan.

So either someone is just whining again about their AAP kid getting moved out of Kilmer or Longfellow or just looking for an excuse to bash FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:I just read Gladwell's David and Goliath. He had some interesting things to say about class sizes. I realize his writing is sort of pseudo-science, but it was interesting.

Can you give us a sentence or two summary? I find that's all that's need to get the gist of his books.

Anonymous wrote:Can some people post grade and class size at Churchill so I can get an idea of the average sizes?

As of September, probably a few kids have added:
K 4 classes 24-25
1st 3 27-28
2nd 4 classes 23-24
3rd 5 classes 26-27
4th 6 classes 26-27
5th 6 classes 24-25 (1/6 had 23)
6th 6 classes 30-32

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooper is not scheduled for a renovation for years, and yet they want to turn it into a Level IV center overnight over the next year or two and dump about 200-300 kids there. Hope your kids enjoy trailers!

If it happens over a few years, that won't be overnight, will it? You sound like a particularly miserable troll.

You sound more unpleasant than the PP you were calling a name. The truth is Cooper is not even scheduled for a renovation.

Anonymous wrote:Cooper is not scheduled for a renovation for years, and yet they want to turn it into a Level IV center overnight over the next year or two and dump about 200-300 kids there. Hope your kids enjoy trailers!

If it happens over a few years, that won't be overnight, will it? You sound like a particularly miserable troll.

Can some people post grade and class size at Churchill so I can get an idea of the average sizes?

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Anonymous wrote:Doesnt everyone say that all the McLean schools are big? Even Franklin Sherman? Its still has large class sizes but just a smaller school population.

If it was so large, then why would most people want to live in McLean? Just look at recent real estate prices shooting up!

I think people focus more on reputation and test scores, rather than class sizes. If it's McLean, it has to be the best right?! Class sizes are something that may bother you more after you have kids in the schools for several years and realize the impact.

I just read Gladwell's David and Goliath. He had some interesting things to say about class sizes. I realize his writing is sort of pseudo-science, but it was interesting.

Cooper is not scheduled for a renovation for years, and yet they want to turn it into a Level IV center overnight over the next year or two and dump about 200-300 kids there. Hope your kids enjoy trailers!

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Anonymous wrote:Doesnt everyone say that all the McLean schools are big? Even Franklin Sherman? Its still has large class sizes but just a smaller school population.

If it was so large, then why would most people want to live in McLean? Just look at recent real estate prices shooting up!

I think people focus more on reputation and test scores, rather than class sizes. If it's McLean, it has to be the best right?! Class sizes are something that may bother you more after you have kids in the schools for several years and realize the impact.

Having had a child go through the McLean schools and end up with good grades and test scores, and acceptances to good colleges and universities, I'm now inclined to worry about it less, not more, for my other kids.

I think there's an undercurrent of resentment that people in places like McLean and Vienna pay more in taxes, yet have larger class sizes, but overall we fare very well. It's not like FCPS isn't renovating our schools - Sherman and Longfellow were recently renovated, and the renovations at Haycock, Langley and Cooper will start shortly. The teachers and extra-curriculars at the McLean schools are mostly top-notch.

And it's not just about the schools. People will pay extra to live between DC and Tysons, which are the region's two main job centers. Same is true where North Arlington is concerned.

Anonymous wrote:Doesnt everyone say that all the McLean schools are big? Even Franklin Sherman? Its still has large class sizes but just a smaller school population.

If it was so large, then why would most people want to live in McLean? Just look at recent real estate prices shooting up!

I think people focus more on reputation and test scores, rather than class sizes. If it's McLean, it has to be the best right?! Class sizes are something that may bother you more after you have kids in the schools for several years and realize the impact.

Doesnt everyone say that all the McLean schools are big? Even Franklin Sherman? Its still has large class sizes but just a smaller school population.

If it was so large, then why would most people want to live in McLean? Just look at recent real estate prices shooting up!