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TexasTowelie

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4. You're welcome.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 21, 2017, 06:57 PM

Jan 2017

We underwent a similar process in Texas about twenty years ago where smaller class sizes were mandated and the students lost access to education in arts and PE with a concentration in the "basics". It became a one size fits all box with less opportunity for critical thinking and inquisitiveness--hallmarks of the docile, Republican-lite brain.

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