Classroom sizes

Classroom size laws make it hard for school buildings to have enough rooms for classrooms, so many places in the building have to be used as an improv classroom. Though it has been proven in an article written for the NCTE that “small class sizes are strongest for elementary school students” there is a bigger issue in where to house all of these smaller classes. As said before in many blog posts like the one written by Tim Walker a teacher “had 35 fourth graders last year. I could hardly work with any small groups or give one on one attention.” So smaller classes are great, they are easier for teachers to work with But there are some drawbacks to those smaller classes “such as losing art and music classrooms,” as told by T. Keung Hui. School districts talk about maybe cutting “art, music and physical education teachers to come up with the money to hire more K-3 teachers.” They also have no idea where “to find space for the thousands of new classrooms needed.” Because of this classroom size limit schools have to make “some students to switch schools, placing enrollment limits on schools, converting art and music spaces to regular classrooms” they even have to raise “class sizes in the upper grades to more than 30 students and having two different classes share a classroom at the same time.” So I thought why not put a limit on how many students in each grade can be admitted into a school for each school year. There are some setbacks to this idea, but it would help schools to not be overcrowded and have to cut out some classes and teachers. But public schools would have issues with this since they have to be able to admit students no matter what because they need to go to school. But to be so full to the point of having teachers teach in hallways, libraries, gyms, and cafeterias is too much. This is very distracting for the students because the places they are learning are not normal environments at all. So in the end a student should have to think about what they are going to be learning in class today not where are they going to be for class today.