My son's Kindergarten class has 18 which is the max they can have. At his school they actually have a teacher that teaches 2nd and 3rd grade at the same time and one that teaches 4th and 5th at the same time to keep the class sizes they way they should be.
I feel ya though on the academic side. At reading time L.J. goes to another teacher who deals with the kids who can already read while some of his classmates are still learning their letters. I'm glad they at least make accomodations for that sort of thing. His school has a lot of migrant worker families that speak Spanish as a first language so he is pretty far ahead of a lot of the kids. I'm hoping when he gets to 2nd and 4th that he'll be put with the teacher that does both grades so he can do a little more advanced work.
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