The school board just voted to approve smaller K-5 class sizes starting next term. This outcome belongs to the 552 people who put their names on this petition and refused to back down. Keep an eye on the upcoming district budget meetings to ensure they follow through on these new …
April 13, 2016
Final supporters
We, the undersigned eligible voters of the city of Bettendorf as well as of the Bettendorf School District, are petitioning the Bettendorf School Board to revise their current policy on class-size in order to DECREASE class sizes in K-5.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 30, 2016
January 25, 2016
The school board is ignoring the reality of these overcrowded classrooms, but your signatures prove that our community refuses to accept this status quo. Please email your local board representative today to demand a meeting on this policy change. We need to keep the pressure on until they agree to sit down with us.
January 25, 2016
We just hit one hundred signatures. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and text three friends to keep this momentum moving.
Reached 100 supporters
January 25, 2016
61 Comments
It will increase better performance for the students. My son had ADD and benefited from smaller class size. The Bettendorf schools testing of student will greatly improve with this change.
Research has shown that children benefit most when they are in small classes early in their schooling experience AND they remain in the small class setting for several years. In my opinion, it is important that the Bettendorf School District makes a commitment to implementing a successful class size reduction program.
I am originally from Davenport. I have always considered Bettendorf school district to be the best in the area. I was shocked to discover that they have the largest class size relative to nearby school districts. This is unacceptable! Bettendorf can and should do better for our children.
I've gone in to talk to classes a few times over the past few years and the amount of students surrounding you makes it feel like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It's hard for kids to feel like teachers care when the level of personal attention drops and giving personal attention to that many kids is overwhelming.
Yes please! We just moved from Minnesota this school year. My current kindergartener has 25 kids in her class. When my 2nd grader was in K in MN, her class size was 18 kids. That is a huge difference! And we were in a district with over 700 other kids her age. Thank you.
I taught middle school for several years and now teach at the college level. If class size has mattered to me immensely in those contexts, that is only more true for teachers of younger ages. The numbers that our children's teachers are expected to handle, in the mid-to-upper 20s and beyond, combined with the incredible amount of hours they must spend in non-student-contact tasks, means that their opportunity to transform students lives (not just get them through the next hoop) is profoundly reduced. Prioritizating in our economy is no easy task, but attracting higher-quality teachers with better pay and benefits and offering them more workable class sizes should be very high on our lists.
Smaller classrooms gives more opportunity for teachers to focus on students needs.
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The school board just voted to approve smaller K-5 class sizes starting next term. This outcome belongs to the 552 people who put their names on this petition and refused to back down. Keep an eye on the upcoming district budget meetings to ensure they follow through on these new …
April 13, 2016
Final supporters
We, the undersigned eligible voters of the city of Bettendorf as well as of the Bettendorf School District, are petitioning the Bettendorf School Board to revise their current policy on class-size in order to DECREASE class sizes in K-5.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 30, 2016
January 25, 2016
The school board is ignoring the reality of these overcrowded classrooms, but your signatures prove that our community refuses to accept this status quo. Please email your local board representative today to demand a meeting on this policy change. We need to keep the pressure on until they agree to sit down with us.
January 25, 2016
We just hit one hundred signatures. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and text three friends to keep this momentum moving.
Reached 100 supporters
January 25, 2016
61 Comments
Would like to see class sizes reduced for upper grades as well. My son is in an honors pre-calculus class where there is not enough desks for students, & apparently not enough room to add more. He sits at a chair without a desk unless someone is absent. Over crowding can't be good for the teacher or the students!
It will increase better performance for the students. My son had ADD and benefited from smaller class size. The Bettendorf schools testing of student will greatly improve with this change.
Research has shown that children benefit most when they are in small classes early in their schooling experience AND they remain in the small class setting for several years. In my opinion, it is important that the Bettendorf School District makes a commitment to implementing a successful class size reduction program.
I am originally from Davenport. I have always considered Bettendorf school district to be the best in the area. I was shocked to discover that they have the largest class size relative to nearby school districts. This is unacceptable! Bettendorf can and should do better for our children.
I've gone in to talk to classes a few times over the past few years and the amount of students surrounding you makes it feel like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It's hard for kids to feel like teachers care when the level of personal attention drops and giving personal attention to that many kids is overwhelming.
Yes please! We just moved from Minnesota this school year. My current kindergartener has 25 kids in her class. When my 2nd grader was in K in MN, her class size was 18 kids. That is a huge difference! And we were in a district with over 700 other kids her age. Thank you.
I taught middle school for several years and now teach at the college level. If class size has mattered to me immensely in those contexts, that is only more true for teachers of younger ages. The numbers that our children's teachers are expected to handle, in the mid-to-upper 20s and beyond, combined with the incredible amount of hours they must spend in non-student-contact tasks, means that their opportunity to transform students lives (not just get them through the next hoop) is profoundly reduced. Prioritizating in our economy is no easy task, but attracting higher-quality teachers with better pay and benefits and offering them more workable class sizes should be very high on our lists.
Smaller classrooms gives more opportunity for teachers to focus on students needs.
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Would like to see class sizes reduced for upper grades as well. My son is in an honors pre-calculus class where there is not enough desks for students, & apparently not enough room to add more. He sits at a chair without a desk unless someone is absent. Over crowding can't be good for the teacher or the students!