Who here on FR is old enough to remember the term: “Featherbedding” on the railroads???
IMO, teachers have been ‘feathbedding’ for years with complaining on the sizes of classes & they keep trying to convince parents today that if they have ‘only 20’ or ‘only 15’ or fewer kids in their classes, everything will be unicorns & rainbows.
I was raised in a small rural town.
We averaged 32-36 in our high school classes, and about the same in the 8th grade I attended. Prior to that, I was in a one room school with 14 kids, 8 grades & 1 teacher who had only 2 years of college.
I’ll put my fellow classmates up against any other school you can name, with their overall smarts & successes thru life.
Now that taxpayers & SOME politicians are getting the message that having tons of teachers in the schools doesn’t get your little Johnny or Susi a decent education. preparing them for adult life.
Get back to the basics-—
Toss out the teachers ‘union’-—
Teach kids about real life-—
Then we might have a chance to employ someone useful.
“We averaged 32-36 in our high school classes,”
Same here, but I went to an expensive, private, Prep School. Got a wonderful education! I was a “Dorm Rat.”