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Ty - sometimes you are just cruel. First I say:
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Originally posted by Spanky
Testing and small class sized seem like a no brainer to me, but in California smaller class sizes has no support from either side of the aisle. This is not a partisan thing, just no one supports it.
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Then you response is:
I would suggest that one reason that teachers' unions seem to have so much influence is that educational policy is hard, abstruse stuff, and that people who care in the abstract about the issue have a hard time figuring out how to translate their interest into political action. I would vote for political candidates who were going to improve the schools, but I don't think they (a) know how to do it, and (b) know how to sell that in a political campaign.
This leaves the field wide open for the unions to assert their own self-interest.
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You respond to my question of why smaller class size has no support but then you don't answer the question. I think you are going to clear up this baffling mystery and then you don't.
You would think the Teacher's Unions would want smaller class sizes. Wouldn't you? If you were a teacher wouldn't you want less students? And why would Republicans be against small class sizes? Republicans are always pushing for more money to go to the classroom and not the bueracracy. What better way to make sure money is spent on the class room than forcing smaller class sizes? This seemed something obvious everyone could agree on, and for a while they did.
So why did everyone get together and push through small class sizes for elementary schools but then let it go for Junior High and High School? Could it really be what they told me that some stupid study showed it didn't help and they all dropped? Are there more sinister forces at work? Why did this happen Ty? Why Ty Why?
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