After reading your editorial on class sizes and teacher assistants (Sept. 15, not posted), I was concerned that you quoted information from the Department of Public Instruction regarding class sizes at Colfax Elementary and Peck Elementary that paints a very inaccurate picture of actual class sizes. If you had checked with the schools or district office, you would have found that there are no classes at Colfax Elementary with 26 students in third grade. Our district will not allow class sizes in third grade to exceed 24 students without correction. The average on our day 10 report for class size in third grade at Colfax is 22.4, which means classes there have 22 and 23 students. Also, Peck Elementary has been allocated teachers which result in class size averages of 16.7 in third grade.

Providing misleading information did not advance your arguments about class sizes and teacher assistants. All Guilford County elementary schools as of today have been allocated enough teachers to meet and exceed in all cases the North Carolina standards for class sizes.

Michael Harris
Greensboro

The writer is chief human resources officer, Guilford County Schools.

Editor’s note: The editorial used information provided on the schools’ Web sites.