I had to LOL at the last sentence. Apart from that I really couldn't find a reason to disagree with everything Russell says. The difference between a class size of 20 and 40 probably depends on the ability of the teacher to maintain discipline in a class, until it comes to one on one tutoring. That will depend on the students...not on the class size. On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Regarding restaurants and healthy food. This analogy could be taken as a reason for home schooling, healthier just like home cooked food.
Regarding class size, I think that to a large extent the best class size is determined by the skill of the teacher. Some teachers are simply incapable of keeping order in a class of more than 8 or 10 students. Others can keep order and usefully teach 50 students.
Regarding the violence in schools. The easiest way to improve things would be to make every teacher sit the PCL-R test. There's probably only a few psychopath teachers in each school (I know of two at the high school I attended) but it's enough to make a huge difference.
Another easy way of improving the school system would be to expell the students who have no hope of passing year 12 when they are 14 and make them work at McDonald's. -- Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with K-9 Mail. _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@lists.luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk