Preschool and child not mixing

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I'm glad the teacher was helpful, and maybe the 9 child class or the one you can stay at will work. 20:1 isn't standard for preschool, many states require 1 to 10 or better. You're not asking for anything fancy here.

For our area, it feels like it's fancy. Anything that isn't "normal" feels fancy and usually costs more, which makes me hesitate to even look into it sometimes. I'm not sure how many kids the class actually had, but if 9 is a much smaller class, there were probably at least 15 kids.

It's not unusual for the districts and anything connected to the government to save as much money for themselves as possible, thus making the student-teacher ratio higher than it should be. Bunch of blasted cheapskates. About 5 or so years ago, they gave all the teachers in the district a 13% pay cut, and the custodians a 20% pay cut, while giving themselves a 3% raise. So glad the IRS decided to audit them for it and last year everyone's salaries went back to where they should have been.

All the private places know they're worth more, and so charge more.

After doing the class where I could observe him, we've determined that it's not the sound level, but the amount of people talking all at once that's stressing him out. It's something that stresses me out as well, and I'm trying to figure out how to deal with it even for myself... so I don't know how to help him there. We'll be sticking with the tiny classes for now.

I'm stressed by lots of people talking at once, too. Good that you have the option of smaller classes, though I disagree that 7-9 is tiny, given there is 1 teacher it is a normal size for 4 year olds.

I'm moving him to just the church group, so there are maybe 5 older kids (none his age) and they're a lot quieter and better behaved. He's been before and likes it, so I know he can do that.

I was talking to a teacher last night and he said it sounds like my oldest has Audio Processing Disorder, but when I looked it up, there's not really anything I can do ear plugs won't work, because it's not the decibels, it's the sheer amount of different voices going at once, and I know from experience that it does not help... But at least we know the problem and can work on figuring out together how to make life easier.

I think the speech therapists have recommendations and they are who evaluates for auditory processing disorder. You've probably seen this but I'll link anyway.

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Unde ... -Children/

Thank you, I hadn't read that particular article, but it answered some questions I didn't know I had yet! All we know is that too many people speaking at once stresses him out, he says it's too loud, and starts shutting down, so it might just be a sensory thing that goes with being on the spectrum, or something else. It's so fascinating to me how many different things can cause similar effects!