Transcripts For CSPAN3 Crowded Out 20150906

Her once happy classroom gradually becomes dysfunctional and argues that overcrowded classrooms are incompatible with good education practices. This was the classroom. Time for each child. Time to know and understand each boy and girl. To handle and guide them in different ways. New paths. Feeling her work as a teacher. This was how it was until the construction of a huge industrial plan. Suddenly almost overnight, the quiet suburb became a small city. [bell rings] just as the community changed, so did the classroom. One by one, the class projects were removed to make room for more desks. More and more as the months went by. You say classroom in a cour rridor. Another in a basement. You say classroom being set up on the auditorium stage. The School Library taking out of circulation. Classes doubled up. You see a class. A playground area designed for the safety of less than half this number. We attend the next meeting of the school board. There you sit among vacant chairs. Those of who frame School Policies and are responsible for our schools. The school board and the superintendent tried to read the problems of overcrowding. As they strive for solution, you begin to wonder, whose fault is it that kathy is not getting the best in education . Suddenly you feel it is dire to help. Work out these problems with your neighbors. Through your community organizations. Also because essentially you are a fair person, you begin to feel a sense of guilt about miss roberts. Guilt that grows, especially when you hear from another teacher that ms. Roberts intends to resign