I remember being in elementary school and having between 25 and 30 kids in each class. We did NOT have a teachers aid.
I believe at least some of the addional teachers that were just hired are for the elementary schools. A friends daughter was saying how her class had 28 kids and since that was "way too many" students they were getting split into new classes when the new teacher started. 28 kids in a class may be toward the upper end of what you want, but it is NOT too many.

As far as disruptive students: Send them to the prinicpals office. They do not belong in class. Teachers are not baby sitters and they should not have to deal with trouble makers. The school administrators are getting WELL compensated: let them deal with disruptive students.

Students in highschool need to get used to larger class sizes. Many university classes are held in large lecture halls and may have well over 100 students. Lets actually prepare our students for real life and not just baby them.

I think you all might want to re-read Bobb's post. He said outrageous school administrators, not teachers wages, hence the comma.

It was the wage of the administrators bobb1951 mentioned. Read the post before jumping on the bashing wagon. In fact it never said outrageous wages, just outrageous administrators.

MOC0428-bobb1951 never said teachers wages are outrageous.

bobb1951 - Do you know how much a starting teacher makes? Not enough to put up with the garbage these disrespectful kids put them through on a daily basis. I'm not saying all kids are bad, but the bad apples tend to stand out! If you start cutting teachers or salaries the quality of education will surely drop and then you'll have something else to complain about. Get real!

if they close a school it should be a elementary we have more than enough of them....

realitybites- When (If you have any) your kids were in school I believe you would not feel this way IMO we needed more teachers and I as a tax payer dont have a problem with kids getting a better education as to smaller class sizes. And by the way my 4 kids are all grown and the education was well worth the taxes and still is For future kids.JMO

bobb i don't know where you think the teachers wage is outrageous With the way kids act and the large classrooms , they earn every dime. Now I suppose some will start bashing the school teachers like they did GM workers.JMO) I would not be a teacher as to the behavior of some of the students. If we as kids would have thought to do what kids do today in school OH MY GOODNESS I would still be standing up. Just my opinion

realitybites-It may have been necessary to hire teachers where one faction of school had big classes, for instance the high school but the elementary had falling enrollment. Just a thought.

Didn't the school board just get done hiring a few more teachers because of ""huge"" class sizes?

Now they tell us that enrollment is dropping and they might have to close a school.

Well, which is it? Do they actually have the gall to tell us that individual classes are too large while telling us that the overall attendance is down?

Did we really NEED to hire new teachers? I seriously doubt it. STOP THE MISUSE OF TAXPAYER MONEY

I would agree to close a school if it is warranted but I would not go so far as to say that teachers wages are outrageous!

real possibility of school closure with not only attendance drop,less tax money,less state help,outrageous school adminstrators,teachers wages,benefits.Easier to close a school(or 2) than any compromise from above named parties.