Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 30, 2012

teachers should be given more than a pat on their backs. not to used as a political prop. and, not to be used as the reason of the local deficit.

35 students in one classroom, 5 next door. That makes an average class size of 20!Need to look at the median class size

Most of the classes I sub for have at least 30 students…

In my mom’s years in the public schools, I don’t think she ever once had a class that was under 30.

As I remember it, the STUDENTS were much easier to handle due to then standards of child rearing and discipline. The teachers didn’t have to deal with the effects of poor parenting to the degree they do currently. That, combined with the unrealistic expectations and requirements placed on the educational professionals, has caused the current poor state of education in the U.S., and it’s not going to get any better.

At one in a million, there are still over 300 people in this country just like him.

Gotta admit, as much as I like this strip it can SOMETIMES be pretty obscure….but when you hit one out of the park, it clears the fences, the parking lot, the county line……

oh, yeah…and I also agree with every post listed to date, so a four fingered cartoon five to everyone

In Alabama the proficiency exam was at the 8th grade level and a certain group was not required to take it because it was deemed racist by that groups lawyers.

If they didn’t pass the basic exam, they would not have been hired. If they were not hired, they would not have completed their probationary period. Our union doesn’t not prevent firing unsatisfactory teachers. The union does provide due process when teachers are accused by a parent or child who is angry about a low grade earned by the child’s lack of work. Large class size (35+ or “only” 30 if non-English speakers).

This is why I decided NOT to become a teacher:.—You’re held responsible for 30+ kids at a time but have almost no authority to discipline them,.—You’re used as a way to score cheap political points by both left AND right (but more often by the right),.—Your lesson plans are subject to the hysterics of a parent whose qualifications can (and in at least one case in NYC, did) consist of taking orders at McDonald’s,.—and all for a salary far less than what we pay our average garbage collectors.

Alabama? It probably was racist. I know some great folks from that state, but the institutions are another matter …

20 per classroom is only in the private schools here. And that may not last long. The kindergarten class this year was so large that the local public school system had to add an extra class at 5 of the 7 schools or face going over 40 children per classroom!!!

Mrs. Olsen confiscated the book that Caulfield was secreting inside his math book. “Nobody’s Fool” by Richard Russo, 1993, was a “five star” book that was made into a multi-award-winning movie in 1994 starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, et al. Now I’ve just got to read that book! Thanks, Caulfield.

The better behaved and self-motivated, the larger the class can be. Fill a classroom with 30 disruptive brats and nobody is going to learn a thing no matter how good the teacher.