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By: Helen Pate Bain

Helen Pate Bain — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:26:36 +0000

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By: Helen Pate Bain

Helen Pate Bain — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:23:11 +0000

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By: teacher

teacher — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:36:56 +0000

I just wish interested arties could op u on campus and look at the average classroom and see the numbers. I teach regular level students at Glades Central and all of my classes have ver 30 students, but then look at the honors and AP classes…..5 or up to 10.
Getting an accurate number is a JOKE.

By: Florida's Future

Florida's Future — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:34:49 +0000

Stay the course Floridians!!! It’s been proven over and over again that the smaller student/teacher ratio BENEFITS THE CHILDREN in the long run. (Hey, all you self-centered, egomaniacs… It’s the responsibility of the adults to work out the details.) For too long now, Florida has been known for prioritizing other interest above our children’s education. What a shame to this generation if we can’t even see this small, yet important change to it’s fruition. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy or convenient.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:56:23 +0000

At this point, the negative economy, the influx of Haitians and other illegals, the School Districts being involved in everything from transportation to who yo baby daddy that it is no wonder they still can’t read.
If the Districts’ administraters are really educators then they should educate! They are lousy as CEOs!

By: Bad democrats

Bad democrats — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:51:48 +0000

Keeping smaller classrooms with the influx of more haitian immigrants…right!

Florida can not sustain this massive flood coming our way.

As California went, so goes Florida.

California, ONCE the state of the BEST school system is not one of the worst!

The federal government is squeezing the states with more immigrants, unrealistic demands.

Time to vote out democrats and abolish the department of education and let the state and local district make educational decisions.

By: MackG

MackG — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:49:32 +0000

flmom,

They do not do it the way you state. Right now schools are allowed to use averages for ACADEMIC classes, but when the full law kicks in they will not be allowed to average at all.

By: AMS

AMS — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:47:27 +0000

Problem in Palm Beach County…all the new school built have SMALLER size classrooms! Now, if there is an increase in class size…we are going to have to be squeezed into a small square footage.

PB County built SMALLER classroom square foot to accomodate the smaller class size.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:19:37 +0000

I’m of the opinion that Class size has as much to do with the recent improvements in Florida’s school as the “stricter standards” passed by ex-Gov Bush. The success of class-size is just now kicking in. We need to keep it.

By: flmom

flmom — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:38:51 +0000

Get an understanding of how they count class size, they average the number of students and the number of staff. They count the library media specialists, pe teachers, music teachers and art teachers as having 0 students instead of counting them as having all the students in the school. It really distorts the class sizes anyway.