Reducing Class Sizes in California
In response to William Trombley’s News Analysis, “No Simple Answer to Class Size,” Aug. 26:
As a teacher with 17 years experience in the classroom and a parent of young children just about to enter the school system, I am deeply concerned about the issue of class size. I am completely fed up and somewhat jealous when hearing from friends who are teachers and parents in other parts of the country who teach or have children in classes of 15 or 20 students. Instead of traveling to Japan, why doesn’t Gov. Deukmejian visit other school districts in this country and find out how they do it?
Also, I believe that if any administrator, school board president, taxpayer or governor would spend a minimum of six weeks in any classroom teaching 30 to 35 children, he or she would beg, borrow or steal the funds necessary to reduce class size.
I would like to offer a solution to this problem: Drastically reduce the number of school administrators. Assign two credentialed teachers to each classroom of 30 to 32 students. No new classrooms need to be built, our students will be served in a far greater capacity and teacher morale will skyrocket.
ROZANNE LANCZAK WILLIAMS
Los Alamitos
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