SL&AM
Cheer Parent
- May 13, 2014
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I feel like some of the solutions are applicable for smaller schools, but my HS was 9-12 and had 4000 kids. If the kid didn't care the school let them fail and they were sent to the remedial HS. Interestingly enough, many of those kids then succeeded at the remedial HS because it was smaller and they were given more individualized attention. I think the real problem is the size of some schools. In reality high schoolers are just like really big elementary school kids. And no one would dare have an elementary school of 4000.
This sounds like my high school; I'll never forget my freshman meeting at the start of the year, the principal said look to your left, now look to your right, half of the people sitting in this room will not graduate. I sat with just under 1500 students, I graduated in a class of 600 and something students.
I also think small class sizes are to everyone's benefit. In our elementary school, 18 is the max allowed. CP's is at 18 exactly, while DP only has 14 (she's in Kindergarten). If they have even one child over is the number required, the school is fined over $1,000 a day. There are 7 total Kindergarten classes and I wanna say 6 1st Grade.