His fifth grade class, which meets for the first time on Monday, will have thirty pupils. That’s eight more than his fourth grade class had. Seems the public school system has no maximum size requirements for fifth grade. Getting them ready for the crowded classrooms of middle school, I’d bet.
The school principal says she’s working on reducing the fifth grade class sizes, but is promising nothing. Figures. I bet there are two things at work here: the teachers’ unions keeping pay high so more teachers can’t be hired, and the swarm of illegal immigrants flowing across our Southern border.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I don’t get it, Dick. Why is it that it is a given that smaller classes mean better education?
The answer is that it doesn’t. That is a BS teacher’s union answer to everything. More teachers. More money per pupil.
Do-do. I’m sure that you are instructing your kid at home, along with his school, and he learns approximately 10X more that way than he ever would with some gaping dumb-ass with an “education” degree trying to teach him with the latest, most politically correct methods. Building his self-esteem until he was eternally sure that he could do anything he wanted his entire life without ever having to work very hard to get it.
jd
Mr. B. has some attention problems. Not severe, but he needs some supervision. Smaller class=more teacher time with each student. I’ve seen it work. Not that I expect eight more kids this year to be much of a problem for him. His mother worries about it more than I do.
As for teaching him at home, uh uh. I supervise his homework. The parts of it I can readily understand, which I’m sure will diminish as he gets into high school.
I pay considerable taxes for them to teach him. Most of it isn’t PC (except, so far, on global warming and some confusion over what exactly freed the slaves) and what there is of that I can amend at home, if he mentions it.
I can well remember my own version of PC and being skeptical of a lot of it. Outward conformity and inward skepticism are what I learned in school. I expect he will too.
Vaguely remembering my own school years, I can testify that big classes mean more noise and much less discipline. As well as less possibility for the teacher to pay attention to individual student’s needs.
Well, plus that I have heard the same from my teacher mom all the time, of course 😉