Topper wrote:ukcanuck wrote:Unlimited class sizes makes the possibility of 35 kids and that's a physical impossible number and still mark every piece of work and plan differentiated lessons. I would need to spend another 25-30 hours a week just keeping up.
35 students was quite common in the classes I went to elementary school in.
ukcanuck wrote:Composition should be a three way decision between the teacher, administration and a doctor, not allowing testing by the ministry because of budget concerns is not an acceptable answer in many cases.
This is just how it needs to be to work
Your version of educational utopia needs a do$e of reality.
Teachers went to school to learn to teach, educational policy is the domain of the elected government. Just as taxation and budgeting is.
Tax and budgets are numbers education is about people.
You should be aware that anecdotal evidence is not always valuable.
Sure 35 kids in a elementary classroom when I went to school was not uncommon in the 1970s
But 2014 and it's a different world.
35 kids in high school college prep courses and provincial exam courses are way out of line.
Private schools know the optimum is 22. That's what the public system should shoot for.
As for coin yeah it's more expensive but that's the reality, it's about priorities
Sure, the governments concern is to keep costs down but it's teachers concern to provide the expertise ...
It's called balance which is what class size used to be
Now it's all the way to the government side and there are kids and parents getting screwed over.
And that is fact not my version of utopia.
Pretty sure if it was your kid who couldn't get the timetables or kept putting letters backwards and was being marginalized in classrooms and on the playground and withdrawing into himself no matter what you were doing at home would colour your idea of dollars and sense