Are smaller classes really better for kids? Here's what happens when politicians decide to save money by increasing class size.
, it had to be us. My son had already transitioned to daycare at the age of three without a tear. He had a May birthday and was beginning to write his name. Heck, I was a senior adviser to the Ontario premier who helped shape the education system he was about to enter. He’d be fine, right?
We worked closely with his teacher—who was fantastic—and over the course of the year, my son learned to cope with the din of his classroom, but he was always a bitThe next year, just by luck, he was assigned to a class of 16 kids and he immediately formed bonds with his classmates and teacher. He didn’t wince or drag his feet in the morning anymore.
classes have a hard cap of 29 students . Grades one to three only have one teacher but a hard cap of 23 students.introduced by Premier Doug Ford, aimed at helping the province tackle a debt burden of about $350 billion. With these changes about to take effect, there have been massive protests on the front lawn of Queen’s Park, and the stage has been set for a highly contentious round of bargaining between the Ford government and the teachers’ unions.
It’s important to understand the difference between an “average cap” and a “hard cap.” Most Canadian provinces have hard caps on class sizes, meaning a classroom can’t exceed a certain max. But Ontario has average caps, meaning school boards must reach a target average class size, but there’s no limit on how big any one class can be.
“The accumulative effect of these cuts is there are going to be fewer adults in our schools,” says Carol Campbell, an associate professor of education at the University of Toronto. “Fewer custodians, fewer education workers to provide support, fewer teachers in classrooms and fewer teachers to be coaches or to lead band. All of these changes are going to be negatively felt by students.”
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