This matter is urgent. Students need to be in school and teachers want to be teaching.
Stack ’em deep and teach ’em cheap is unacceptable. In a society of supersize this and that, it should not pertain to the classroom.
Anyone who is a teacher, was a teacher, or is studying to be a teacher, knows smaller classroom sizes translate into more teacher/student time.
Reader, what is a reasonable classroom size, where students receive a quality education and time with their teacher? Are 29 kindergartners in one class okay with you? How about 38-42-plus students in a high-school class?
As teachers we know that overstuffed classrooms are both wrong and unacceptable. We also know and understand that the district does not have unlimited resources. Other neighboring school districts already have small classroom sizes in place and did this without running to the courts. Why can’t KSD?
We are asking that our school district do the right thing by putting a cap on classroom sizes and be responsible with the finances that are entrusted to them.
Vanessa Call
teacher, Horizon Elementary
Kent
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