I’m not sure how this is gonna end, but it doesn’t look good:
Raleigh, N.C. — Wake County’s school board has a new challenge: reducing classroom sizes during tough budget times.
The Board of Education on Tuesday learned the state did not grant waivers for 329 oversized kindergarten to third-grade classes.
North Carolina law allows for 18 students for every one adult in those grades.
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Principal Lisa Cruz says first-grade classes at Jeffrey’s Grove Elementary School in Raleigh have closer to an average of 29 students this school year.
The State is getting further and further into debt and there is seemingly no way out. We simply don’t have the money to hire new teachers or assistants and yet we have hay to make.
I’m not sure how we are gonna get to the 18 students to adults ratio in some of these schools, but I know that we have to. When the classes are as big as they are at the school mentioned above, Jeffery’s Grove, the teacher’s ability to teach is severely limited. Discipline becomes the order of the day and any real hope of knowledge transfer vanishes. More than the diversity issue that our board faces, I think that they are going to have to solve this problem first.