"Eat My Shorts"

Classroom sizes are way too big. Period. For me, my time in primary school and high school were surrounded by 30+ people and at times you could tell the teacher was struggling to hold it together. I look back at high school and cringe and laugh… But mostly laugh at the things we as students did to our teachers. I’m telling you now; power by numbers is such a big factor in whether a teacher or the students have control over the classroom.

We had students hanging from the fans, throwing dusters at them, swear at them, we wrote notes to teachers to “go die in a whole you fat whore” (I personally did not do this.), spat “gollies” on the chalkboard and even threw dirty underwear at the teachers (I also did not do this). I’m telling you right now; there are too many students in classrooms and if you don’t want to shorten them to save money then do it for teachers, for their health and welfare. Looking back, most of our teachers had breakdowns and left because they couldn’t handle us as a group unit.

So as you can see, It baffles me to the point of exhaustion that this Christopher Pyne clown would even suggest that the government had been wasting money and resources on reducing classroom sizes. I mean, wasn’t he a student once? Is he really that old that he cannot remember what it was like to be in a classroom, to be heard? To state your opinion? To me, the way the Herald sun has portrayed Pyne in the article is as if he is whinging about the education system... Oh boy we must be in trouble then!

I’m pretty sure if you ask any student if they would like their classrooms to be small I’m positive that they would all say YES. Pyne was quoted as saying “There is no evidence that smaller class sizes somehow produce better student outcomes”.  I don’t know why we (as a nation) are so money hungry. Education is supposed to be free. In saying that; if the government cannot give us “money” then give us smaller classes.

Christopher Pyne, you are clearly out of touch with the education system. I believe Bart Simpson puts it beautifully... Don't have a cow, man!