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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that this is a stupid petition. Yes, I want smaller class sizes, but "the man" already knows this and a petition isn't going to make it happen. And the county can't afford this - where do you think the money will come from to fund this. Librarians and library assistants are already on the chopping block and that's just to keep the status quo.[/quote]

If this petition were asking to make everyone's class size smaller, then I agree it would be not sensible.  But that's not what it asks for.  People don't realize that there is a VERY wide range of class sizes in Fairfax County.  In elementary, there are classes as small as 12 and as large as 35.  What the petition asks for, in the context of an across-the-board class size increase that will cut many millions of dollars in costs, is protections for the kids that, year after year, get stuck in the very largest classes the county runs.  
Separately - for those who talk about teacher quality being more important than class size, that is probably true up to a point.  But it is also true that there are class sizes too big for even the most wonderful teacher in the world to teach properly.  It's those classes - 29 five or six-year-olds to a class, 30 or 31 seven or eight-year-olds, 35 plus, (yes, that has happened!) 8-year-olds to a class - that the petition seeks to prevent any child or teacher from having to endure.[/quote]

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