In my public school, 40 some-odd years ago, we had between 35 and 40 kids in my elementary school classes. Our teachers handled them quite nicely. Sometime after that, these 35 to 40 kids who were assigned to a classroom became too difficult to handle for one teacher.
Logic tells me they need to figure out what changed and work on that.
Also, I didn’t go to college, but aren’t there sometimes classes held in small auditoriums with a couple hundred students or more? So, obama - what’s up with that??
Yes, it is amazing! Isn't it? An 18 year old in government high school can't possibly learn in a class with more than 20 students, but then graduates and a mere 12 weeks later is able to learn in lecture hall hall with 100 or more students. Wow! What an amazing quantum leap in maturity during those 12 week between high school and college! It must be a hormonal growth spurt. ( Heavy sarcasm!)
Also....When my homeschooled kids were in community college ( beginning at ages 13, 12, and 13) I noticed that the community college was amazingly effective at teaching remedial courses to high school illiterates and innumerates. Hm?....
The college could teach reading and arithmetic and bring these kids up to college level in about 2 years,...but...just 12 weeks earlier the government high school couldn't. Why is that? A mere 12 weeks between high school and college can make that much of a difference? Please remember these kids still lived in the same crummy dysfunctional families, still worked part-time jobs, still had the same friends...BUT...the community college could teach them to read and do math but the high school couldn't.