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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 585737" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>MWM: Of course there are that small schools. For example in this country there are kids who go to school with less than 20 kids and even that school may be 50 miles from their home. I'm sure you have remote and rural schools also in USA.</p><p></p><p>The school I was a year had two classrooms. One for Kindergarten and 1 and 2 grade and another for 3,4,5 and 6 grade. I think there was 38 kids that year all together. In some ways it was academically really good. It was flexible and kids got to study very individualised pace. I was third grader and I think I studied three years worth of math that year and for once I wasn't bored out of my mind. And when teacher thought I was moving too quickly she simply came up something else for me to do for rest of math classes. I did some seriously cool stats and probability projects that spring.</p><p></p><p>My kids elementary school had little over hundred kids and one class per grade and two combined (again Kindergarten to 2 grade and 3 grade to 6 grade) class for special needs kids that were more resource type of classes (all the kids were also integrated to their age group at least for some classes.) If the student count gets any smaller they will likely start to combine grades. easy child's grade had 18 kids from which one was mostly in Special Education class (she is daughter of our friends and with down syndrome and while she did have individualised syllabus in everything but PE and music, she was integrated with others also in some academic classes, but she had some difficulties in concentrating with bigger classes and that's why she spent most of her time in Special Education class) and two were going between Special Education and mainstream. difficult child's class was uncommonly small, 12 kids with only difficult child spending any significant time in Special Education. There was only one other kid who was in Special Education first for our native language and later for foreign language because of dyslexia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 585737, member: 14557"] MWM: Of course there are that small schools. For example in this country there are kids who go to school with less than 20 kids and even that school may be 50 miles from their home. I'm sure you have remote and rural schools also in USA. The school I was a year had two classrooms. One for Kindergarten and 1 and 2 grade and another for 3,4,5 and 6 grade. I think there was 38 kids that year all together. In some ways it was academically really good. It was flexible and kids got to study very individualised pace. I was third grader and I think I studied three years worth of math that year and for once I wasn't bored out of my mind. And when teacher thought I was moving too quickly she simply came up something else for me to do for rest of math classes. I did some seriously cool stats and probability projects that spring. My kids elementary school had little over hundred kids and one class per grade and two combined (again Kindergarten to 2 grade and 3 grade to 6 grade) class for special needs kids that were more resource type of classes (all the kids were also integrated to their age group at least for some classes.) If the student count gets any smaller they will likely start to combine grades. easy child's grade had 18 kids from which one was mostly in Special Education class (she is daughter of our friends and with down syndrome and while she did have individualised syllabus in everything but PE and music, she was integrated with others also in some academic classes, but she had some difficulties in concentrating with bigger classes and that's why she spent most of her time in Special Education class) and two were going between Special Education and mainstream. difficult child's class was uncommonly small, 12 kids with only difficult child spending any significant time in Special Education. There was only one other kid who was in Special Education first for our native language and later for foreign language because of dyslexia. [/QUOTE]
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