[txrefugee]

Our high schools are far too big. No one can keep up with more than 500-600 teenagers, a good percentage of which are disturbed. Fewer students would mean fewer nut cases to deal with each school year, and some of them might actually get the help they need to function in the world.

[DiogenesLamp]

Our high schools are far too big. No one can keep up with more than 500-600 teenagers, a good percentage of which are disturbed. Fewer students would mean fewer nut cases to deal with each school year, and some of them might actually get the help they need to function in the world.

I don't know of any government supplied "help" that can solve the problem of missing/incompetent fathers.

[RedMonqey]

Our high schools are far too big. No one can keep up with more than 500-600 teenagers, a good percentage of which are disturbed.

My thoughts exactly.

A troubled teen can and does get lost in the system.

Too easy to pass off this kid as somebody';s else's problem.

Too easy to blame the guns, music or video games.

[hanamizu]

Our high schools are far too big

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I tend to agree with you. I taught a a rural K-8 school that had about 300 kids. Everybody knew everybody. Not saying that such a thing couldn’t happen in a small school, but I do think it that lack of anonymity lets fewer kids fall between the cracks.

Unfortunately, the trend over the last several decades has been to consolidate districts and create ever larger schools. The advantage is, of course, to make more available to h.s. students. In today’s world, with internet available, it seems to me that a small school could offer many on-line courses and still treat the students as people rather than numbers.