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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Part of the problem with class sizes has to do with priorities. One high school I'm familiar with offers all sorts of second language programs, which have very small class sizes. So even though the average might be 30 kids per class, the 5 kids taking Mandarin means a bunch of Math classes need to be at 40 kids per class. Incompetent scheduling at the school level isn't something that the provincial gov't can fix. It probably needs to be fixed by good people at the board level.
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The High School situation is a little different, which is one of the reasons I used the K-4 as an example. In public school at that age there aren't a large number of streams and programs so its more of a pure number.
I do think that there should be changes to the education system (some of which would likely reduce costs), but thats another story. The reality of our school system is that we have a huge infrastructure problem, along with large class sizes and about a 70% graduation rate (for kids finishing with a diploma after 3 years from starting grade 10). At the same time though we know that we have a shortage of skilled workers and the demographics look even worse a decade from now.
Don't get me wrong, the education system really is excellent. Its just that the budget is not flush with excess and really needs more cash. Change to a system in that state will be incremental as well.