Letter to the Editor: Support Bills to Reduce Class Size
Vienna parent wants area residents to support Del. Barbara Comstock bill that would change how Fairfax County calculates class size average.
To the editor: Our world-class schools are the number one reason businesses and families come to Fairfax County. But people will not move here once they see many of our overcrowded classes. We now have the distinction of having among the largest class sizes in the area and Virginia state law does almost nothing to protect our children. Current student to teacher ratios are calculated at the county level and afford administrators way too much leverage where they can place as many kids as they want in a classroom, just as long as divisionwide, they do not exceed the state ratios. Given that Virginia already has the highest caps in the country, we are headed down a very slippery slope. How are children expected to learn and teachers to …
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Heather Barber
2:00 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
"Yet few academic studies have found that class size makes any difference to how well children perform in exams." Really? I suppose this may be true, yet many, many academic studies have found that class size makes a big difference in how well children LEARN. Is exam performance what is important? Furthermore, this article is about schools in Britain. We need to stop comparing US schools with … more ›