I took a look in my old yearbooks, on average 38 kids per class. I guess they just had more grit back then.

Lew @1: the fact that higher class sizes have existed does not make them good for teachers or students.

@2, I would say Lew's steady stream of poorly thought out observations, which betray an inability to comprehend things which don't conform to his biases, present a good argument for class size reduction.

Wow. I knew Russell Simmons wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but that's a special, limited edition flavor kind of dumb.

Doritos for pot heads. ha ha. hilarious. 'cause, like, it's soooo true, maaaan.

Keep up all the stoner stereotypes and pot will be accepted by the mundanes in no time, I'm sure of it. *rolls eyes*

I've said it before and I'll say it again... the worst enemies to the legalization of pot are the pot smokers. Marijuana probably would have been legalized years ago, if only the stoners had just stayed out of it.

Someone tell me again why a convicted rapist is back on the streets one year later?

@7 Gee Jeremy D. Ondracek had "only" 45 court records in the State of Washington, not including the felonies in Oklahoma. You are so quick to toss away the key when it comes to offenders, compared to the various departments of justice and corrections in Washington state.

Whatever subpopulations qualify for the unlimited "catch and release" program in a few states, Jeremy D. Ondracek seems to be a member of them.

They should have kept Morsi. Even incompetence is better than civil war.

@10 I haven't been keeping notes, but wasn't the big complaint with Morsi that he was re-writing the constitution on the fly to give his office all the powers?

Reduce class sizes? Easy. Pass Charter Schools initiatives, more home schooling programs, and stop this condescending elitist one-model-fits-all approach to public education. It's also racist too. White elitists know that blacks will never be able to afford their private schools so their tots are safe.

@12 so the solution is subsidize the whites' private schools? That's about as dumb as the idea of you being concerned about racism.

Key and Peele did a little Harriet Tubma bit, but the whole thing was just a "free running" pun— silly and harmless, but also one of the weakest sketches they've done.

I only bring it up because whoever wrote the Tubman bit on Simmons' channel is not only tone-deaf, but a hack.

@14: The subsidy goes to tuition vouchers for whatever school it is used for. There is not a direct subsidy from the government to the private school.

Opening up opportunities combats racism, instead of harboring poor people in the only model available to them.

@16 And have you forgotten that landmark study already? The one revealing that nearly three-fourth of all charter schools underperform compared to public schools?

But do go on beating your drum of stupidity and bigotry. Ladies and gentlemen, your republican party at woek.

@17: School performance does not negate the need for choices. There are poorer charter schools and better public schools, and the reverse is true.
You can't stand to allow the dumb masses to have choices, can you?