BOISE - Idaho would eliminate tenure for new teachers, limit all collective bargaining agreements with teachers to one year and raise class sizes in grades 4-12 to fund a big new emphasis on technology and accountability, under a sweeping plan outlined to lawmakers this morning by state Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna. read the rest
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"...enlarging average class sizes by 1.25 students per teacher in grades 4-12 to save $62.8 million. Luna would bump that up another three-quarters of a student in 2013, to save another $37.8 million."
When I was in grade school 1950-1958, one sister had a classroom of about 35 kids, from 6 to 14. We learned or we flunked and did it over (but many sisters worked with many kids after school and in the summer). To my mind the main reason it worked was that it was understood by all - parents, teachers, and kids - that inside the classroom "Sister Says" was second only to the Ten Commandments in authority. I suspect this is no longer so.
Used to be like that in public school, too. If you misbehaved, the principal had a whoopin stick and he wasn't afraid to use it. The teacher might embarass you in front of the class. You learned.. The last thing you wanted was the whoopin stick, or to be embarassed by the teacher, or for Dad to find out that you weren't learning or that you were misbehaving.
Discipline, known expectations, accountability, and respectful behavior to those around you. And yes, our classes were 30 or so students.
The Libs have really screwed the pooch on education. (and everything else they've touched)
Blue, Emerson Elementary Kindergarten class of '59-'60.
Stay safe.
Yep, I remember getting suspended from school for fighting when I was in second grade. My Mother marched me back to school and told the principle that being suspended was what I wanted and that instead of kicking me out of school, he should just "bust my ass". Then after getting an ass bustin' at school, I got a stern lecture and another ass bustin' when Dad got home. And Mom towing me by the ear down the hallway at school didn't feel so good either. ;)
Mike
It used to be that if a student got in trouble the parents would come to the support of the school to help solve the problem. Now days their children can do no wrong and it's the school's fault regardless.
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