Bill Gates is wrong

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9. The one thing I like about Bill Gates' Ed policy

He was on an NPR show and said, "Class size doesn't matter. Studies clearly show effective teachers are more key than smaller class sizes."

Which causes the local right wingers to break out the pitchforks and torches.

What they choose to ignore is the second half of his quote, in which he says, "Of course, that breaks down after you put 25 or 30 kids in a class." His definition of "large" just happens to be different. I think back to the time I had 54 kids in a freshman English class. Forget having enough books, we didn't have enough chairs!

And the thing I like about him, educational policy-wise, is he refuses to give any aid to our very large school district. He says if the population doesn't value education enough to hire enough teachers, it's just money wasted. And I agree, big time.