Posted on 03/23/2013 1:33:17 PM PDT by redreno
A parade of educators told legislative budget committees Saturday that more money must be poured into reducing class sizes in the elementary grades to help students advance.
“We have to restore class size,” said Pat Skorkowsky, interim superintendent of the Clark County School District. “Our teachers are asked to do more and more with less.”
An overflow crowd in Las Vegas attended the hearing, which was televised from Carson City.
Jeremy Christensen, a high school teacher in Clark County, called it child abuse when children are packed into a classroom
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
I invoked your name in my post #14, below. I meant to ping you then, as FR etiquette demands — I’m doing so now.
“below” s/b “above”
Yeah. I am generally in favor of larger class sizes, with more teachers aides. ...Though that really only becomes economical with truly large class sizes.
Our local school has a program where they pay about $10 an hour for people who have passed background checks and passed muster to provide some individualized simple help to the children. They tend to be people that teach in other parts of their lives, that don’t have education degrees but have some spare time such as from temporary unemployment or having kids all of school age and just spend a couple of days a week helping out during the school day but are able to be home as soon as their kids come back in the door.
“Also not all teachers are pro-union.”
Many I know are not pro-union. Most of those not only are not pro-union they *hate* dealing with the union and the regimented seniority and all that goes along with it.
You are absolutely correct. Education will improve when discipline and educated teachers are returned to classrooms.
“Also not all teachers are pro-union.”
Very true. I was referring to the union as an organization, acting in its own best interest. Those interests may, or may not always coincide with those of the teachers, or the students. The union only needs to have the support of 50% + 1 of the teachers.
Thank you. I’d forgotten about this thread, and there have been some interesting comments while I was out doing Real Life!
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