This e-mail was sent to us by one of our readers who is concerned about the size of the classes at Roy-Hart.....
FIFTH GRADE: The board would not confirm or deny the rumor of dropping down to 4 teachers. Enrollment is 104(not sure how they came up with this number, more kids than pictured in the yearbook), 26 students per class with 4 teachers. Personally I thought 24, 25 students was acceptable, I think 26 is pushing it. Pass the word onto parents who have children entering fifth grade.
My focus is on Kindergarten class sizes. We now have 114 kids registered, class sizes of 23. I need parents to come to the meeting and voice their opinions on smaller class sizes. Please let Kindegarten parents know of the issue. If we can get parents to attend the summer meetings we are more likely to get what we want. When our fifth graders were in Kindergarten we had 18 to 19 in a class. That was ideal. If we could get the approval of one more teacher, class size would be 19.
Last night, Patti Reigle approached us and asked what we thought of half day Kindergarten classes with 11 in each class as opposed to whole day classes with 22 to a class. Meetings are the 2nd and 4th Thursday every month at 7:00 in the high school. This month there is a meeting on July 1st as well (not sure if I can make this one) - I believe it is a reorganization meeting for the BOE members which is open to the public. Agenda items usually are posted on the Roy-Hart Website under Board of Education.
Please forward this to anyone you know with kids in the school district.
Patti
FIFTH GRADE: The board would not confirm or deny the rumor of dropping down to 4 teachers. Enrollment is 104(not sure how they came up with this number, more kids than pictured in the yearbook), 26 students per class with 4 teachers. Personally I thought 24, 25 students was acceptable, I think 26 is pushing it. Pass the word onto parents who have children entering fifth grade.
My focus is on Kindergarten class sizes. We now have 114 kids registered, class sizes of 23. I need parents to come to the meeting and voice their opinions on smaller class sizes. Please let Kindegarten parents know of the issue. If we can get parents to attend the summer meetings we are more likely to get what we want. When our fifth graders were in Kindergarten we had 18 to 19 in a class. That was ideal. If we could get the approval of one more teacher, class size would be 19.
Last night, Patti Reigle approached us and asked what we thought of half day Kindergarten classes with 11 in each class as opposed to whole day classes with 22 to a class. Meetings are the 2nd and 4th Thursday every month at 7:00 in the high school. This month there is a meeting on July 1st as well (not sure if I can make this one) - I believe it is a reorganization meeting for the BOE members which is open to the public. Agenda items usually are posted on the Roy-Hart Website under Board of Education.
Please forward this to anyone you know with kids in the school district.
Patti
