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Subject: Re: Wright Stuff - Class Sizes Posted on: 20 Mar 2008 18:30:48 GMT

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:25:57 -0700, allan tracy wrote:

> http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2266611,00.html?
gusrc=rss&feed=8
>
> A schools minister was yesterday heckled by teachers after he backed
> larger class sizes and suggested that it could be "perfectly acceptable"
> to teach maths to pupils in classes of up to 70.

At university you have sizes of 160 students, and despite being older you
tend to still feel like an arse asking a question. What a class of 70
teenagers would feel like if they had a question in a normal school would
be even worse. Smaller sizes are better, but that means spending money on
proper teaching, instead of wasting it on trendy lefty brainwashing such
as citizenship.