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Parents and teachers urge board to reverse proposed elementary section reductions, warn of 27–29-student classrooms
Summary
At public comment, multiple parents and elementary teachers told the AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT board that proposed reductions would push some elementary sections to about 27–29 students, undermining individualized instruction and special-education supports.
Scores of parents and teachers used the meeting’s public-comment periods to press the AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT board to reverse planned elementary section reductions that would increase class sizes in some sections to roughly 27–29 students.
Karen (speaker 10), a parent of first- and third-grade children, said the change would “increase our class from 21 students to approximately 29 students” in some classrooms and described how classrooms that now offer individualized instruction would become strained. “That’s just not a change…
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