public school teachers.....organized criminals.
Push along with them for more spending. They’ll run completely out of money and shut up sooner. ;-)
And how will the government “printing press” (re. fabricated financial instruments) keep them going, when the fake revenues will be worthless? That tactic worked, when we were producing something to steal revenues from. But that’s nearly all gone. There’s a big default ahead of us all. Yea! ;-)
How about cutting loose the kids who don’t want to be there. Many kids today don’t want to go to school. They cause disruptions, fail every class due to lack of effort, and basically cause headaches for teachers and those students wanting to learn. Class sizes will go from 33 to 15 in an instant.
Texas is public school teacher poor. If we took the trillions of dollars that are sucked out of the economy in the name of public education and allowed the tax payers to invest it, Texas would be a world-class economy.
The public school system is nothing more than a make work project to keep demoRat voters employed.
No sympathy for them. PERIOD!
I wonder how many students they’d have in their class if all the illegals went home?
Class size is little relevant to quality education. Class sie, however, does impinge on the number of teachers contributing money to the Unions.
Maybe they should cut non teaching positions to cooks, janitors and one principal per school.
“public employee union parasites keep running the same playbook.”
It is soooo nauseating!!!
Soaring class sizes—that’s what happens when you have to educate a million of another country’s kids.
It's so horrible. Classes with... *gasp* ...over 30 students???
Oh, wait, most people over 40 probably went to school with classes that size.
Oh, and there's more. Class size doesn't correlate with student success.
Never mind.
I didn't get mediocre grades because there were too many kids in class. A number of kids did very well. And you'll never believe how they did it. They actually paid attention in class, studied hard, and did their homework on time. Shocking but true.
13 extra kids is devastating?
Fercryingoutloud, you're supposed to be teaching them not breastfeeding them.
There is no evidence that more kids in class makes the learn less.
A lot of anecdotal evidence, and arguments that don’t stand up to scrutiny.
A few examples:
More kids means they will take too much time asking questions. Except that for a vast majority of classes, the number of unique questions about a subject will be low, so there’s no reason to expect that multiple kids will have to ask the same question. So if you had a class of 40 kids, vs 2 classes of 20 kids, the question would be asked TWICE in the 2nd school, and only ONCE in the first school, which actually saves teacher time.
Also, we know teachers have different capabilities. The more teachers you need, the less capable the worst of them will be (like when baseball expanded and they needed more pitchers and so more teams had bad pitchers). If you make class sizes bigger, you increase the likelyhood of a student being taught by a better teacher. Double the class sizes, get rid of the bottom 50% of the teachers, and EVERY kid gets taught by a teacher in the top half of their profession.
Problem: Teachers who drive school boards have managed to get most schools built with classrooms too small for larger, more efficient class sizes. In schools in my district, you would be hard-pressed to add more than a few kids to a lot of the classrooms.
The fix: Use the high-tech computerized and wired schools, to broadcast the best teachers to multiple classes around the county. Now you can teach every student with the top 20% of the teachers. Every class GETS a teacher still, the ones that are in the bottom half get paid less, but don’t have to prepare lesson plans, just answer questions, grade papers, and babysit.
Larger class sizes would also prepare kids better for college, where they will be taught in lecture halls and have to schedule appointments to ask questions of teachers.
With the right technology, they could even offer stay-at-home schooling, for kids with good internet. IF the kids can do the homework and pass the tests, let them do it from home. Saves bus costs, lowers “class sizes” for those showing up.
My school district offers all sorts of summer school classes online — even Gym classes (kids have to do formal activities like team sports and stuff). My daughter did a science summer course last year, and interacted with the teacher through e-mail. Tests were online, except midterm and final were at a school.
There are so many innovations we could use in public schools, if we got over the idea that the public schools exist to provide guaranteed employment for the teacher’s unions.