Class Size

* I do not hear public education addressing the most important issue: smaller class size. Has no one spoken to parents who put their children into private school? The issue is class size. More classrooms, more teachers, more interaction, more Internet. Standardized testing will only tell us what we already know--that public education is in trouble. In our era, when science is literally our planet’s foundation and future, it is abhorrent to offer science classes with 43 students in each class. Give these teachers the proper environment and let them do the work they have chosen to do. Limit class size to 20 maximum and five minimum and let the teachers teach! And let the students learn.

TONI ARINSBERG

Los Angeles