Originally Posted by
Cuzzie
Labour's plan to reduce class sizes is not going to fix better education standards period. Reducing a class size by 4 to 6 students is not going to increase the teachers ability to teach to a higher standard. Furthermore, add 2500 to 3000 teachers into the system that can't get a teaching job because of lack of experience or poor results is just going to dummify students more which is what Labour wants. Easier to control when they are adults.
There are good teaches and bad teaches, Labours plan is going to increase bad teaches and reduce quality teaching to private schools only. Further more to that, an average size school will need to increase their classrooms by about ten per school. Before you do the logistics on that, many schools are already at a capacity size (BUILDINGS). That means 260 existing students on average from a school that is at capacity will have to will have to be moved on. Explain how to go about that?
Schools like Auckland Grammar pump out our best achievers not by mistake. They have the best quality teaching staff available. John Key is right over this, quality over quantity will get the best results every time. This is a no brainer and another poorly thought out policy by Labour who is hell bent on promising everybody everything. We saw this kind of bribery from Clark too.