LEVY: Size isn't the issue

I’d like to make a comment about the tax levy coming up. I hear people say that the class sizes need to be smaller. Well when I went to school we had on average 30 to 33 students in a class. We learned, and that’s because the teachers taught. Of course back then if we got unruly in class, the teacher would rap our knuckles and that usually got our attention. The teachers also didn’t have teachers lounges where they could go to drink coffee and whatever they do now. Most of them even brought their lunches and sat in their class rooms and ate them. We were never left to our own. I was told by a friend’s child that one of his teachers in high school would come into class, tell them to read so many pages in their books then go to the teachers lounge the rest of the class time. He’d come back as the bell was ringing to give them their homework assignment. Now does that sound like he really was teaching those kids. There is an old saying, “If the student hasn’t learned then the teacher hasn’t taught,” Maybe instead of smaller classes we need teachers that are really interested in teaching.

RUTH MARYOTT

Rathdrum