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In my school, we now have 26 kindergartners with one k teacher and no aide whatsoever. What are your class sizes and are there any state laws to govern this? With the push for early childhood education / preschool, I feel like kindergarten is falling through the cracks. How about you? Any research out there about this?
Flacka In the vast majority of states kindergarten isn't even mandatory which is crazy in and of itself. A friend who teaches in a very poor urban school has 30 in her class and no aide. We have a grant that limits the class size at our title 1 school to 22 but schools in the district without the grant have much larger classes. As long as the politicians ...See More
Sep 12, 2015
maureen My granddaughter's K class has 16 I think and there are two K classes at her school. None of my other children, grandchildren ever had had more then 18 in their classrooms. All attended public or parochial school for their K years.

I taught Montessori multi age so I had children ages 2 1/2 though kindergarten age in the same classroom. I ...See More
Sep 13, 2015
DonnaR/CA On 9/12/15, Michigan Mary wrote: > In my school, we now have 26 kindergartners with one k > teacher and no aide whatsoever. What are your class > sizes and are there any state laws to govern this? With > the push for early childhood education / preschool, I feel > like kindergarten is falling through the cracks. How about > you? A...See More
Sep 13, 2015


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