Dylan Callens

We Need Smaller Class Sizes

I remember in my first year of teaching when I had a class of thirty-four grade nine students. It wasn't long before the class was split into two. The chaos turned into an amazing learning environment. But now, twenty years later, those classes of thirty-four are closer to the norm. Students are packed into small classrooms and the intimate, necessary learning environment for youth has been destroyed. In the maze of jam-packed desks and cacophonous voices, it’s clear as day: we desperately need smaller class sizes.