This is only happening in California...one of the only states to give cuts to education first..very sad. My husband and I just started our daughter in public school in January and now her class next year could be bigger than expected. We are taking a trip to Vancouver Washington next month and who knows..maybe we will leave this sorry state. In Washington, education cuts NEVER happen.

Thanks for the update Tara.  Glad to hear that the Delano Joint Union High School District is avoiding reductions.  I hope that the teachers let go can find replacement work without too much disruption to their lives and families.  This is all just a sad situation.

 TRACE:  30-35 students used to be the norm!!!!  However, that was when the teacher DID have control of the classroom and if a kid leaned back in his chair, fell on the floor and cracked his head the other kids laughed, the teacher snatched him off the floor and when the parents werre informed he got smacked on his arse for disruptin the class and for being so stupid!!!!!

hbaq538: Maybe instead of paying cal trans workers so darn much money to clean the freeways & streets we should put prisnors to work doing that for a $1.00 a day!  That certainly would work for me!  But then ya got the bleeding heart libs and the ACLU who scream that is cruel & unusual punishment! Then they would want health care and vacation time, etc etc.!!!  Where's that Arizona sheriff when ya need him!!!

 Bigger classrooms spells D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R.  The obvious fact is that teachers have less time to focus on the kids, which in turn means LESS CONTROL OF THE CLASSROOM. So now when a kids gets hurt, because the kid is leaning back in his/her chair and falls and hits their head, and the parents sue the schools, who do we blame? 

Every parent knows that their kid can be a handful at times. Who in their right mind would want to try 30,35, or 40?  Geez.  If we believe that children are our future, then I think our government should set the budget with education as the FIRST priority.

hbaq538: I agree with you.  I just wonder though, if we invested in early education, could we prevents some kids from going down that path in the first place?  Less prisoners, more education, sounds good to me.  In a perfect world........

 This is a demoralizing state of affairs. What next? Closing schools and cramming kids into overcrowded classrooms elsewhere?

 About time we got around to reducing the money spent on prisoners. The prisoners can get out and pay for any education they feel they need like the rest of us. They need to terminate all educational spending in all prisons until our schools have full staffs and sufficient facilities to educate our kids.

 The word from Delano Joint Union High School District is that there will be no Reductions in Force.

Good news, indeed.