One more thing, none of my kids' kindergarten teachers have ever had an aid for any part of the day.

I serve on my school's PTA board as the legislative chair. This year I wrote up a proposal for a resolution for Nevada PTA to approve. It requested that kindergarten class size match that of first and second grade. Nevada PTA told me that a resolution already exists in support of that and that they would bring it back to "current" in their books in case the issue ever came to the legislative floor. I have also been to a couple of CCSD board meetings. Our school district seems to only focus on all-day kindergarten and not at all on kindergarten class size. I am sending my third son into kindergarten this year and I was relieved to hear that he is only going to be one of 30 kids in the class. How pathetic is that?! His two older brothers were each one of 37-42 kids. Our school has the option of having full-day kindergarten for $300 a month or half-day kindergarten. I am all for all-day kindergarten in at-risk schools so the children can be better prepared for first grade, but in a school where it is not really necessary, it seems like we could use the classroom space to have smaller class sizes.