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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]50 kids in a classroom.  Is that comparable to having 50 kids in a classroom who are band students or choir?  If everyone's engaging and cooperative what's the big deal?[/quote]

Engaging and cooperating are nice goals to have for an elective like a band or choir, but the classroom goals should be different for 50 EIGHT year olds who all have questions to be answered, need constant verbal and non-verbal feedback, and need opportunities to participate in group discussion and engage with each other, not sit listening and be shushed when a teacher sees them acting up.

Band or choir are GROUP activities.  A set of activities in a 3rd grade classroom are not always GROUP activities.

This set-up (large class size, lecture (although who in their right mind spends all day with 3rd graders lecturing?)) benefits:
a) crowd control
b) passive learning
c) factory-model style learning

This is surely not the Lafayette that parents are clamoring to get into? 
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