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Date Posted: 13:03:05 04/18/07 Wed
Author: Bryan C. Wilson
Subject: Re: Classroom Size
In reply to: Erie Martha Roberts 's message, "Classroom Size" on 08:24:40 04/15/07 Sun

I thought the information suggesting students perform better in smaller classrooms was interesting, also. I can see the student�s involvement increasing because the teacher can focus more on individuals and individual needs. I also see this working out for teachers in areas such as behavior. I believe most students do what they feel they can get away with. The smaller classrooms give smaller windows to fool around. I never thought about the facility shortage. Good point! I guess the idea of having 15 students in a classroom is the dream of every teacher and/or aspiring teacher. I do believe this would be a great investment for any school system, to attempt to limit the number of students in a classroom. This would call for resources and progressive thinking that I do not believe exists in a lot of major school systems. Maybe I will be proven wrong in the future, hopefully!!

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[> Re: Classroom Size -- Cassandra Schuyler, 18:27:10 04/18/07 Wed

Yes, ultimately 20 students or less would be the ideal in one classroom. I agree. In MCS it is more likely to see these smaller numbers in just elementary schools. When you get into secondary education facilities, for some reason the class size grows. (And with puberty during adolescence, this is not a good idea).
This problem does come from facilities, but even thinking about classrooms of 15-20 students the rooms are still sometimes too small for that many students. Yes, we do need larger schools or to expand the schools we have. My question though....Why are schools in MCS closing when all MCS schools are already overcrowded? We do not have room in classrooms for any more students.Where are they going to go? For example, I have 28 desks in my room and still a few times have been assigned 30 students. The simple fix is to add more desks but 2 more desks do not even fit...What do we do in these situations?

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