What do you think about overcrowding in scools? Is it a big problem? How can the problem be fixed?
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In California it's a big problem.  Did you know only 30 something percent of the education budget is spent on teacher's salaries, only 3% on supplies and just 1% on books.  It's in a Claremont Institue study.  The problem is bureaucracy -- the rest of the money is going to a multitiered bureaucracy with a district bureaucracy, a county bureaucracy, and a state bureaucracy.\n\nTo fix it you need to streamline the bureaucracy!  You probably didnt even know there was a county educational bureaucracy -- most people don't -- i say totally eliminate that layer and streamline the rest.  The Claremont study found that when they did that in Texas performance actually went up.  Then use the money you save by cutting the bureaucracy to build new classrooms and hire more teachers, thus reducing classroom size.
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to stuff or overcrowed
352123
Universities do not have unlimited space.  They are restricted in the size of enrollment by the physical size of the buildings on the campus.  At my university, the classes are typically jammed and some students have to plan on taking 5 years to finish a degree that should be completed in 4.  There is also a limit on the number of professors and how many students that they can handle.
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This is the second question you have posted on here this morning. You obviously are asking others to do your course work. Why did you enrol if it is too much for you?\nDo your own research.
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Cover their school in bird seed.  It's super-fast to do, which reduces the change you will get cuahgt.  Plus, you can always argue it's not wrong to feed birds!\n\nThe bird seed won't create that much of a mess.  But the birds that follow will!
816198
Dont reintroduce it? That'd be my vote, but dont ask me how to then deal with our overcrowded prisons...cos i have no idea sorry
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I am a teaching assisant and there are so many children now in the 'inclusion' zone, it is sometimes impossible to have a controlled classroon. There are ADD, Aspergers, extreme low level learners, just plain old bad behaviour alll in the mix as well as the normal good children that are just there to learn. The teachers hands are tied. They can't get rid of any of these children as the law states they have to be included. It can be hell. I feel most sorry for the good ones who are getting left behind because so much time is taken with all of these demanding children.
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please furnish me the source of your information that 56% child monsters work. i think that is exaggerated figure. it is better if they go to toilets at home and under unavoidable circumstances some body in school is to take them and i do not think it is wrong
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My daughter is nearly 9 and distressed that boys and girls get changed for PE in the class room together.  I spoke to the school and they informed me they have to as no changing facilities in the school.\nThe school do not think it is an issue but some children do!
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Not sure how your schools are managed, but we had a similar problem with our school board.  We had support from two of the seven members. So as a group we formed a coalition of parents and at the next election got two more supportive members elected to the school board making a total of four out of seven working with us. They voted one of their own to the head of the table and things started to change for the better with their control.
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I applaud all of you, a school is there to teach children not as another way of the nanny state interfering with the way we raise our children, I have a two (soon to be three) year old son and he will be starting reception school in september. I remember a few years ago the government wanted people to stop calling children winners and losers and instead use the term yet to achieve success in a bid to hep childrens self esteem. Has no one considered the effect of weighing classes of kids, possibly in front of other class pupils? and in any event what about the poor kids who have to take these letters home and the effect being told you're fat at such an early age may have on them, don't we have enough of a problem with eating disorders...
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You have to weed out some applicants when there are too many to enroll...what else would you recommend? Race, gender? NOT!
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The biggest problem in the US as far as school is concerned is the language barrier.  If the schools I have experienced are any indication, there's not much being done about the language problem.  There seems to be this policy of "Learn English" or fall behind, because we teach in one language and one language only.  Its not good.
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I have trouble with the strictness at my school.  As much as I understand it, it's really a bummer for us kids that are actually well-behaved, you know?  *sighs*  It's sad...
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This was Answered by Teachers on Oprah.. The schools get paid per student. It doesn't cover much (free lunches, overcrowding, more teachers) but the biggies in the school system gets the money to spend how they see fit. They do know who is Illegal by enrollment forms. The schools have many issues but the biggies do not want to give up that money now. \n In the beginning it was not a bad idea. The children benefited and so did the schools. But now because of more programs needed and overcrowding from the mass coming in-and tax payers saying enough-they are in deep you know what. It seems not many looked further down the line.
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a little, because you have to change classes, and keep your books in a locker, and have 6 or 7 teachers.  Be brave, have a friend who knows where some of your classes are and make friend with your teachers.  They ARE there to help you.  don't forget that 400 or so other people are feeling the same way you are.  If I were you, I'd go before school starts and find all your classes and make a map.  That way you're not fighting crowd, and you can get familiar with the layout of the building.  Talk to the staff at the office, and just be friendly!  It will be hard at the begining, but it will get easier! good luck!