On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:05:38 -0500, blake murphy
> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:58:43 -0600, BlueBrooke wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry, but I'm not buying that. If that was the case, the classrooms
> > -- which had 30 or more students in them, not the 1:15 teacher:student
> > ratio that seems to be required now --
>
> um, where would this be? it might be thought a good thing, but i know of
> no school system where it is 'required.' certainly not any public school.
>
True, I haven't heard of that even for "needs improvement" schools.
Teachers may end up with a small class, but it's not that small by
mandate and the district packs them in as soon as possible. Umpteen
years ago the parents of a school friend of my daughter's moved to
Nevada because class size was 1 teacher to 18 students in elementary
at the time, but that's the lowest I've heard of for public school.

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