I was wondering what your child's kindergarten class size is.
My daughter started K this week in a Spanish immersion program. There were supposed to be 10 Spanish speakers and 10 English speakers in the class. Now after a week of school there are 26 kids in the class with 1 teacher and 1 aide. Only about 3-4 kids understand both English and Spanish, meaning that almost 1/2 the kids need extra explanations and help for the time being until they get some rudimentary understanding of Spanish, which is spoken all day.
I realize that in many city schools this is normal, but this is a language immersion class, which brings with it some challenges (good ones, I think, but challenges nonetheless). 20 seemed reasonable to me, but 26 seems like a lot.
What do you think? We are going to talk to the teacher about this.
My daughter started K this week in a Spanish immersion program. There were supposed to be 10 Spanish speakers and 10 English speakers in the class. Now after a week of school there are 26 kids in the class with 1 teacher and 1 aide. Only about 3-4 kids understand both English and Spanish, meaning that almost 1/2 the kids need extra explanations and help for the time being until they get some rudimentary understanding of Spanish, which is spoken all day.
I realize that in many city schools this is normal, but this is a language immersion class, which brings with it some challenges (good ones, I think, but challenges nonetheless). 20 seemed reasonable to me, but 26 seems like a lot.
What do you think? We are going to talk to the teacher about this.