Dexter McCarty art teacher says elective classes are overcrowded as school year begins
Erin Applegate, a 25-year art teacher at Dexter McCarty Middle School, told the board elective classes are "all over 40," with one approaching 50 students, and raised safety and instructional concerns about blended 6th–8th grade sections.
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Erin Applegate, an art teacher at Dexter McCarty Middle School, urged the Gresham-Barlow board to address what she described as unprecedented elective-class sizes ahead of the new school year. "My classes are all over 40. I have 1 class of almost 50," Applegate said, adding that multiple elective teachers at her school reported similar enrollments and blended 6th‑, 7th‑ and 8th‑grade groupings.
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