[Zhang Fei]

I teach high school in los angeles and the class size is going from 24-1 to 34 for 9th and tenth graders and 45 for 11th and 12th.

In most of East Asia, where they test at higher math achievement levels than ours, class sizes are around 50. I don't think bigger class sizes will turn students into underachievers. Heck - undergrad college class sizes can be as large as 200 to a lecture hall.

[genghis]

It is always more complicated than it seems.
The best class i ever taught was 53 pre-calculus kids that were desperate to get into calculus.
At my school there are many teachers who can’t manage 20 kids, with 34 it will be a cluster &^%^.