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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom recently sent me an envelope of old photos including my class pictures from 3rd-5th grade. 31 kids each year. This was a middle class school in a small mid-western city and as I recall we all did fine. Why all the handwringing?[/quote]

Yes, I remember having 33 kids in my third-grade class. This was in a one-class-per-grade school.[/quote]

There are a lot of studies showing how small class sizes benefit students.  Sure, you survived, but that doesn't mean it was good for the students.[/quote]

Those studies show that the class sizes have to be a whole lot smaller (like under 20). Going from 25 to 24 has no identifiable benefits.

And, as various PPs have said, it's better to have a good teacher in a large class than a bad teacher in a small class.[/quote]

That's not actually what the studies show.  The studies show that the benefits aren't statistically significant going from 25 to 24.  It doesn't mean that there aren't benefits.  
And, really, why is there always this straw man of "better to have a good teacher with a big class than a bad teacher with a small class"?  As if having smaller class sizes means having worse teachers?  That's not the choice presented here.  Just an attempt to deflect.[/quote]

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