Class Sizes

Apparently there is, once again, a drive to reduce class sizes as a supposed healer of all our educational ills.

I would rather my daughter was in a class of 30 children with a great teacher than in a class of 20 with a rubbish one. Excellent standards of individual teaching and leadership in our schools are the key to children thriving in our education system, it is more important that we put money and effort into this and take the hard decisions to weed out teachers that are not up to it, rather than take a short term decision that might lead to even more inadequate teachers in our schools.