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Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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We are in Chapel Hill-Carrboro School district, and I am very impressed by the small class sizes here.
My 2nd grader's class has 21 students with a teacher and an assistant.
My 5th grader's class has 24 students with a teacher and an assistant.
We were often pushing 30 students where we came from (Northern Virginia) and no teaching assistant. I guess that's what our high taxes are paying for, but I am pleased!
Are class sizes similar in other area school districts and is there an assistant in each class, too?
Wake County (Yates Mill Elementary). 2nd grade. 20 kids. So far there were assistants for K and 1st, but not sure about 2nd yet. Will learn that on Monday.
some parents pick a school because their student plays a particular sport, or play in band, or like small classrooms, home school, private school, academics, a place to drop their kids off...
When my daughter was in elementary school and had a speech impediment and needed a math tutor, the help was provided free at the school, a public school.
Just be involved. Whatever the warts with schools not much has changed in the 25 years I've lived in the area, and I don't see it changing any time soon. The kids and parents that "WORK" still get in to some pretty major colleges and universities.
3rd grade - 20 kids. When we lived in our much-vaunted and over-taxed NY suburb we had 25 kids in 3rd grade.
(Don't know what M.S. class size will be yet).
That said I think the class size thing can be overplayed - we have gotten way more individualized attention and teachers who paid better attention the last two years (4th and 5th grade) with much bigger classes (28-30 kids) than we did in NY. I am very impressed with the dedication of the teachers that we have had here so far, especially factoring what they make and no raise for 4 years!
Our school uses assistants thru 2nd grade. I can't see any reason, truthfully, why a teacher really needs one after that. Often only inclusion classes have them at that point.
We're at Timber Drive in Garner...1st and 3rd grades. 20 in each class. We have four 1st grade classes and they share 3 TAs. We moved there from East Garner and really like it so far. They really have their stuff together.
K - 23 with a full time assistant (they started the year with 21 but had to take on some extra kids a few weeks in)
1st - 19 with a full time assistant
2nd - 22 with a shared assistant
3rd (this year) - 22 with no assistant
My son began Kindergarten this year, and his class is at 21 with a full time assistant.
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