>the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 As an aside, I've often wondered if it's not class size that's the issue, but conflicting ability and personality types. Things l

>the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 As an aside, I've often wondered if it's not class size that's the issue, but conflicting ability and personality types. Things like the GATE program grouped high ability kids, but personality matters and it would be interesting to match students together and with a compatible teacher. Of course, this might fail spectacularly as one of the benefits of diversity is getting other perspectives, and learning empathy. But I think it would be an interesting experiment, especially in a class like math.