Please sign a petition for Nayatt to have 4 third grade classrooms & reasonable class sizes for 2022-2023

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#2

I want Nayatt to have 4 3rd grade classrooms

Mark Burrell (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#17

Twenty-five students is too many for a 3rd-grade classroom. There is high-quality research based on the gold standard for evidence in social science (random assignment) that smaller classes improve student outcomes: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/114/2/497/1844226. I do not understand why the Barrington public schools would cut a classroom, given that the number of students hasn't changed. This will likely hurt our children's academic progress and is especially concerning in light of the pandemic-induced learning losses from which we are still trying to recover. I strongly encourage the Barrington public schools to reconsider this decision and add a third classroom.

Jesse Bruhn (barrington, 2022-08-20)

#18

I worry about the impacts of larger class sizes, especially post Covid, on these young learners. My second grader also has a large class and the transition from Nayatt to HMS is a big one for kids, especially these kids that have been impacted academically and social/emotionally by the Covid 19 crisis. The numbers are too large for teachers to manage all of the needs of these young learners.

Elizabeth Steger (Barrington , 2022-08-20)

#21

My daughter, Iry Gramitt, is entering the 3rd grade at Nayatt School this year. We moved to Barrington just in time for her to start Kindergarten at Nayatt. Kind of. When, through no fault of our own, we couldn’t close on our house before school started, in order for our children to start in the district before we moved here, we were asked to write a check to Barrington Schools for thousands of dollars, which we were told we’d get back when we moved here, and would not if we didn’t. We wrote the check, believing that the quality of Barrington schools outweighed any risk we might be taking, should our home sale fall through.

It all worked out.

Other sacrifices were made to move to Barrington. But we felt it was important for our daughter and her 2 siblings to have the best public education we could provide for them.

The pandemic derailed some of our hopes for a fantastic education for our children. This isn’t the schools fault, but it isn’t the children's or parent’s fault either. Our daughter Iry has never had an optimal year at Nayatt School. Now, her last year there is to be in a classroom with 25 or 26 students?

Before we decided to buy our home in Barrington, we had serious, lengthy conversations with members of the Barrington school administration, to make sure that the students’ needs truly were considered the number one priority. We were assured that was the case.

And so, we have kept out of the fray on many Barrington schools controversies, believing that the administration is doing it’s best. But now… I’m shocked to have learned that my daughter would be in a class with 25 or 26 students. How could this not be detrimental to the future of many of these children? Studies show that class size is most important in the younger years. I could cite lots of research supporting this, but surely the administrators in Barrington’s schools are not ignorant to the research showing the poor outcomes for high student-to-teacher ratios.

Please correct this problem right away. I don’t want to demonize the administration. I appreciate Barrington Schools. I simply do not want my daughter in a class so large and want this corrected, as any in the Barrington schools administration would if their child was to be in such a class.

Thank you.

Matthew Gramitt (Barrington , 2022-08-20)

#24

CLASS SIZE is and should be a huge issue in any school, esp, here in Barrington where we have a school council, who is trying its hardest to cause a problem , where there should not be one

DEBRA NYSER (BARRINGTON, 2022-08-20)

#26

I went to Nayatt and so did my son. This is a great school and I would like to see the class size be smaller for future generations. Thank you!

Lisa Treat (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#28

I want smaller class size

Michelle Daniels (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#29

My grandson will be in one of those third grade classes.

Carl van Warmerdam (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#31

I’m a very concerned parent

Paula McDonald (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#35

I agree our students deserve better, given the facts and everything they have endured the last 2.5 years.

Stephen Sheehan (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#40

We should not have larger size classes for optimal learning

Carolyn Cotton (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#48

I agree with the concerns stated above.

I also ask for more transparency. The email from principal/superintendent yesterday did not offer details. Where were Ms Laucella and Demopulos placed? How many students will be in each third grade class?

Third grade is a pivotal and important year leading into HMS, and we should give our children the best opportunity to succeed.

Thank you!

Jacqueline Draper (Barrington, RI, 2022-08-20)

#53

This is an issue at Primrose Hill as well. Not fair for the teachers or the students.

Erika Twohig (Barrington , 2022-08-20)

#57

Class size is to big to provide optimum education

Carlos Cotton (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#60

My kids are beyond Nayatt. However, my younger child was in third grade when the pandemic began. I think it’s critical for smaller class sizes, allowing for more individual attention, particularly for this incoming third-grade class that, as noted, has not yet had a “normal” school year.

Sharon Monsour (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#61

Classroom size is one of the biggest indicator of success, but they prefer the money to go to a new whiteboard or something. They are cool to spend millions, just not thousands. Makes you wonder why they’re pressing for a new school so much. Seems like enrollment is declining not increasing. Keep this school committee around for a few more years and there will be no children left because most of us will be moving out.

Jean-Paul Dujardin (Barrington , 2022-08-20)

#62

We should expand and keep our community based elementary schools

Michael Raposa (Barrington, 2022-08-20)

#65

Both of my boys went to Nayatt and class size is important

Heather Ryan (Barrington , 2022-08-21)

#66

We pay enough in property taxes our children deserve better.

Elizabeth van Warmerdam (Barrington, 2022-08-21)

#68

I’m a 3rd grade parent at Nayatt and I strongly agree with this petition.

Amy Breslin (Barrington RI, 2022-08-21)

#71

I’m signing because I believe classrooms of 25 or 26 kids is too large of a number for any teacher to manage and provide the attention each child requires for learning and proper understanding of any lesson. It will be unmanageable.

PAULA VICTORIA (Barrington, 2022-08-21)

#74

I am signing this because teachers are not getting the support they need to help our children succeed.

Adam Resmini (Barrington, 2022-08-22)

#80

My son is going to be in third grade and I’m concerned about the attention he’ll receive with this ratio.

Elizabeth Watson (Barrington, 2022-08-22)

#84

Especially at the elementary level, students excel when there are smaller teacher to student ratios. This change will negatively affect the students. Parents pay extremely high taxes in order to have the small teacher to student ratios offered in Barrington.

Mary Grenier (BARRINGTON, 2022-08-22)

#94

Finally these kids have a chance to catch up from “covid”, which we have been told for the past year+ how it’s caused issues with kids learning and how they haven’t been able to go over all the materials they normally do in a year. This year we are finally in a good place and now the resources are being reduced. Last year resources were just hitting the mark. This isn’t a fair change for the students. They can finally work at getting them to where they need to be but instead they won’t have the resources to do so. I understand one reading specialist was hired but that’s not enough for 76 kids and interns are not exactly versed in coping with kids who have had the history in education that these kids have. They simply need a smaller class size and for the assigned teachers to be able to adequately focus on the children in their class, not to introduce a bunch of interns that don’t offer experience or consistency to their education.

Andrea Biehl (Barrington, 2022-08-23)

#97

I see no way that larger class sizes benefit students, and think these students are getting a raw deal in order to save money for other budgetary priorities

Paul Snape ( Barrington, 2022-08-23)

#101

Want to keep Niyatt 4th grade

David Bodah (Barrington, 2022-08-28)