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Small schools By Steve
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Having (briefly) taught part-time for a very small (about 200 students K-12) district, I can agree with this completely. All the parents had to do was threaten to pull their kid(s) out of the district and open-enroll them| in a neighboring district for the administration to cave and pretty much do whatever the parents wanted (even to the point of asking one teacher to write an apology to a parent and student for taking the student aside for pushing other students in the hall and just threatening to give him a detention if he was caught doing it again!). We as teachers had only as much authority as the students | | let us have, since all they had to do was go to their parents with a complaint and the parent would go to the administration or school board and that would be that. Cheating was rampant, but to try to fail a student for it (or for any reason, for that matter) was to put your job on the line.And the school talked up its "small class size" as a big advantage, but then they gave me the _entire_ sophomore class in a single room all at once for World History... 33 students is a small total class size, but not a small class size when you put all 33 in a classroom designed to hold 24!
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