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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always wondered why they just don't fill every class room in the city. Would a "failing" school become higher performing if each class had 8-10 students? Would parents be more eager to invest in a school locally if it had small class sizes instead of shipping their kid across the city to the already crowded school.[/quote]

I’d be happy for my tax dollars to support that![/quote]

I doubt it.  There are lots of underperforming, underenrolled schools now.  If they were going to have the same number of kids with twice as many teachers, or a teacher and a reading specialist or something, that could work.  But would cost a lot.

I attended a small rural school with class sizes like that and we were all sick of each other.  Sometimes a classroom functions better socially with more kids, and it is easier to make groups for various subjects.  A room of 20 might have two or three advanced readers, but in a room of 8 you get one lonely kid.[/quote]

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