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Parent urges board to avoid abrupt class-size jump at South Avenue
Summary
A South Avenue parent asked the Beacon City School District board to avoid raising a rising first-grade class from about 13 to the low‑20s in a single year, arguing the increase would harm students and that supports described by staff would be insufficient.
Helen Eamon, a parent of students at South Avenue School, told the Beacon City School District Board of Education on Aug. 25 that a planned change in class assignment for rising first graders would sharply increase class size at South Avenue and asked the board to reconsider.
Eamon said South Avenue has historically had some of the smallest class sizes in the district and reported that her son has never been in a class larger than 16 students. “I would not ask you to keep our class sizes at 13 indefinitely. I would ask you not to increase them by 61% in a single year…
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