Letter to the Editor
LETTER: Class Size Affects Your Kids
Framingham Teachers Association President: "The number of students in a class directly impacts the time that a teacher can provide individual attention and appropriate differentiation of instruction."
In a recent survey of middle school teachers in the Framingham Public School system, during the first trimester there were 45 classrooms that violated the school committee policy on maximum class size. I have good reason to believe that these violations are continuing into the second trimester. This policy, stating that a core content and world language classroom should have a maximum of 25 students, can be found in the online policy Manual located at http://framingham.k12.ma.us/sc.cfm in Section I, File IIB. The number of students in a class directly impacts the time that a teacher can provide individual attention and appropriate differentiation of instruction. While this bothers the staff in these classrooms, there is nothing they can do…
Diane Tiger
6:21 am on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
I spent many years as a corporate trainer of new college grads entering the workforce. These are people being paid to sit in class. I have taught classes ranging in size from 7 to 30. I can tell you from my experience that the higher the class size the harder it is to really gauge the true abilitues of anyone other than the highest and lowest performers, and behavior problems. Adding another … more ›