Should a child be put in a small class or a large class?

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Should a child be put in a small class or a large class?

So as a parent would you send your child to a class with over 30 kids? Many people have advocated that children, especially those in grades K-6, should not have to be in a class of 30 kids. A child’s first couple years of school should be a place of comfort to these kids, not a place of distress and confusion. Studies have shown that children who are taught in small classes are likely to achieve more later on, whereas those who begin school as a part of a larger class, do not. Class size is not something that just started to be a concern in the world of education. Class size has affected the way kids learn for a long time now. There are many things being done within the educational world to solve this problem. One of the most famous studies of this problem has been project STAR. This stands for Tennessee’s Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Project. This was created to find out what the right number ratio of kid to teachers should be the right one. This project kept track of 11,600 Tennessee students in 76 schools (Small Class Size, 1999). It stated in its report that children who participated in classes with 12-15 kid, did much better in school than kids who participated in classes with 25-30 kids (Small Class Size, 1999). Probably the worst part of the entire class size issue is that students know what they are missing buy being in a larger class. Here they interviewed three 2nd grade students in a class of 23 when asked what might be different if they were in a smaller class of 15 or 16 students and they said that "If I were in a smaller class, we would get to talk more," "I could ask more questions," and “I could make more friends and be Star of the Week longer...

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