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Originally Posted by aceflor
What is an overcrowded class ? Here we often have 30 kids in one class. Many parents complain that it is way too much, but it was always this much and it used to work pretty well.
What I see all the time though is epic failure from some parents, who are more often than not not involved at all in the education of their kids and are expecting it to be done completely through school, and I am not talking only of the curricular activities, but of everything else: manners, morals, ethics, discipline and so on. And the last those parents will do is encourage their kids to read.
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When I went to school there were 30 to a class approximately. It was a lot different then as there was a stricter discipline maintained in elementary schools at least.
I went to one school though in 1967 (dating myself) where 2/3 teachers a year quit and there were at least two who were hospitalized, one for physical injuries, and one for a mental breakdown that was pretty well job related. And this is in Canada, small town, with 20 classrooms od about 30 students. Parents were no less lax in those days unfortunately. I think the percentages of parental discipline etc. may be slightly lower now due to more to income families, but it is far from a new problem and I think that the majority of parents were and are responsible parents. But like really bad teachers (and I had a couple) it is the bad ones who stand out and people tend to blame them all.
Helen