[bgill]

Back in my day, when we rode dinosaurs to school, all our classes were from 35 to 40 students.

Today, we’re paying outlandish school taxes to have a max of 17 students per classroom. Have to keep the low number of students so they can all sit around big round tables to cheat off each other rather than sit in separate desks so most could do their own work rather than a group effort (i.e. participation ribbon!).

[stayathomemom]

I am a product of the Detroit Public Schools, graduating in 1974. My grade school classes were often around 40 students, with the most being 42, if I recall. I bet we were relatively well behaved and with relatively stable home situations, too.

[hinckley buzzard]

Got news for these teachers. Class size is uncorrelated with academic performance. There is good research to prove it. The whole class size issue is a phoney one designed to hire more teachers (union members).

[mulligan]

Many must be skipping school. And that is probably OK since the programs are so bad.

[Organic Panic]

If Detroit public school system kicked out the 20 year old sophomores they’d likely have even more room.

[jmaroneps37]

Don’t the kids actually have to show up in order for the classroom to be crowded?