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I have also heard/read that. I think there must be some threshold size for a class where if you go beyond it, there are just too many kids in the class. 35? 40? 100? Where does it end??
We had 25 kids per class this year in grade school and 20 the year before. I haven't noticed a difference in terms of the quality of teaching. There will be 35 kids in the gifted 4th grade class next year; my son is two grade levels ahead so hopefully it doesn't matter.
California ranks 47th out of 50 states in funding schools, and it is pretty obvious. Our school has little PE, so we pay $2000 a year for the swim team. There is little art, so we pay for art lessons at the local art center. There is little music, so we pay for private piano lessons, etc. I don't know how the kids do whose parents can't/aren't able to pay for the extras that we do.