Tips On Who To Be Mad At

[Sue22]

<p>californiaaa-
If you’re worried that recommendations from your child’s teachers will not be meaningful or personal I think your beef is with your child’s school for cramming its students into mega-classes, not a process that for most schools and kids helps shed light on what kind of scholar and person the college is trying to evaluate.</p>

[Sue22]

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@bookworm‌
“NEVER have known of a class with more than 35 children”</p>

<p>Lucky you. This year, our kindergarten has more than 35 kids.

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<p>Then your district is throwing away funding.</p>

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California Education Code (EC) sections 41376 and 41378 prescribe the maximum class sizes and penalties for districts with any classes that exceed the limits established in 1964.</p>

<p>Kindergarten—average class size not to exceed 31 students; no class larger than 33 students…</p>

<p>The intent of these laws is to encourage the reduction of class size and the ratio of students to teachers. If the above limits are exceeded, statute requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to reduce the district’s revenue limit apportionment for each student over the limit. In short, this means that the penalty for exceeding the limit is a loss in all revenue limit funding for each student over the limit.

Source:
<a href=“Class Size Penalties - CalEdFacts (CA Dept of Education)”>http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/pa/cefcsp.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[bookworm]

<p>so, i’m confused. It seems all states keep elementary classes below 35 kids. A HS, with a special class, may make an exception. Nonetheless, Cal-forniaa is worried his snowflake will not be able to know 2 teachers in 4 years, to write LORs. I wish nothing but restful sleep for our CA-niaa parent; I am sure his child will know 2 teachers during this time that can write a good LOR.</p>

[SlitheyTove]

<p>I’m in California. D1 did have at least one AP course with nearly 50 students in the class, so I can believe large numbers–the class limits mentioned above per CA state law have been ignored for quite some time. Certainly 40 students in a class wasn’t unusual. And the teachers were able to produce excellent LORs for students. </p>

<p>Chemistry for 100 in an auditorium…the mind boggles. Just taking roll is going to take up a fair bit of time. Forget asking questions in class. But, you know, at least THIS AP course adds a fair bit of verisimilitude to the experience of taking a “college-like” class. :-D</p>

[Sue22]

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But, you know, at least THIS AP course adds a fair bit of verisimilitude to the experience of taking a “college-like” class.

Ironically, my alma mater, a New England LAC, doesn’t offer a single course this large.</p>

[mathyone]

<p>This is the result of proposition 13. </p>

<p>But I would much prefer an intelligent lecture to a class of 100 to the silly online classes our schools are now pushing. The only way for them to make sure that kids are actually going through the work is to put in a huge amount of busywork and make-work. Every 15 minutes of actual instruction has to be regurgitated in the format of yet another time-consuming web project using the software du jour. </p>

[QuantMech]

<p>I am coming a little late to the discussion, but my high school had daily lectures for biology, chemistry, and physics, all held in the large auditorium in the school building. I would estimate that we had about 120 students for biology, 100 for chemistry, and 65 for physics. The teachers gave 2 lectures per day (as there were 2 levels of each course). For them, the rest of the periods were devoted to lab or preparation, so we had (typically) 3 hour-long labs per week in each of the subjects. </p>

<p>I can reassure californiaa that the teachers can keep track of the students in this circumstance. Our lab classes were run by the teachers, though, so that might have affected things.</p>

<p>I can also reassure californiaa that it is entirely possible to master these subjects at a top high-school level, in such classes.</p>

<p>Attendance was never taken in the lectures in my high school. Also, the sciences were the only subjects taught in this format.</p>