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Originally posted by Adder
Btw.. I almost forgot that I agree with you on this. While I have heard (but not checked myself) that smaller class sizes have a bigger effect on younger kids, I can't see how it would be bad for older kids.
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The problem was the statistics used to determine if the small class size helped younger kids said that the small class sizes did not help. As I said, I think the stats had to be bad. When it comes to giving money to school bureaucracies I like the pull system instead of a push system. Davis here in Cali threw money at the schools and it did nothing. But if in California you passed a law that no school could have a class size greater than twenty, and then the districts started screaming for money to do it, then you give them the money because then you know it is going towards something productive. That is what Wilson did with the K-12 class reduction program and I think it was money well spent (sorry Slave and Penske)
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Originally posted by Adder That said, I have always preferred bigger classes myself. It comes from not actually wanting to talk to the professors. And the bad things that happen when I do. I think there is still a prof at my law school who resents my suggestion that charitable giving isn't necessarily selfless. And man, if you haven't thought of that one before, you have no place teaching a seminar on jurispurdence.
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I am with you there. After my first year I tried to stay anonymous in class. In our school the professors had the option of being able to slightly adjust your grade based on class performance (they were called push points). If a professor used push points I avoided their class like the plague.
