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Firstly, I didn't say teacher's are always right, if you're going to wade in, why don't you try having a go for something I actually said, rather than something you wish I said? As to the rest of your post, it's complete nonsense. To be good at most things you need to have studied them one...

No, it isn't like that at all. I notice you've completely ignored the question about qualifications. Research is not something anyone can do, for it to be valid you have to understand the difference between valid and unreliable studies, and yes, you do need some knowledge of the field you're...

Really? In what field? What are your qualifications? What actual classroom experience have you got?

Why do you keep repeating the same thing over and over? I don't care HOW many peer reviewed journals the book uses, the book is making a study of those journals. The link I posted is also a review putting together peer reviewed studies, but that review is, itself, also peer reviewed. Anyone...

There's a few points here. Firstly, I'll take a peer reviewed paper over a book any day. What exactly are YOUR qualifications to say the book is definitely right and everyone else is wrong? Secondly, why discount actual experience? The smallest class I have ever taught is 2, the largest 32, and...

By the way, here's a genuine peer assessed and published study that suggests class size DOES matter. Again, it's an analysis of all the research done to date, rather than just one piece of research...

So you tell me, however, your analysis of it runs contrary to my 20 years experience actually doing the job. I'm not going to just take the book's word for it, I want to see the actual studies. All we have in that book is one person's analysis of them. Who's thew author? What qualifications does...

Are you? I doubt that very much, and if you are, I'd like to see a link to the study, because I;m speaking from a position of 20 years of teaching and experience of both very small and very large classes.

OK, I've managed to change the settings and shrink it. When I first used it there were only about 6 or 7 flags on there, it stopped working on here years ago and I never got round to removing it. It's very recently started showing again on here, but because I also use it on my homepage on a...

It is, and the more kids that did it the worse it would get. How, for example, as a chemistry teacher would I possibly organise practical coursework sessions, that student HAVE to do in order to pass if I could have huge numbers of the class missing at regular intervals never knowing when that...

I'd forgotten it was there, until very recently it never worked. I think I may keep it a bit longer though...

A lot of that IS unnecessary, but teacher's don;t do it by choice they do it because they HAVE to or their schools would fail inspections... ...all that pointless paperwork I was talking about.

I have yet to meet anyone who went into teaching from another job, or gave up teaching to do another job say that teaching was the easy one. To be fair, since emigrating and moving abroad I've realised just how much of that is the ludicrous amount of pointless paperwork that teachers have to...

Do you think marking and lesson planning has to be done at school? Most teachers take huge amounts of work home.

Do YOU do your work training during your holiday?

.and of course, because it says what you want to hear, it must be right and all the other research wrong. The FACT is that smaller class sizes DO improve education, I agree it's impossible to make them small enough in the public system, but that's no reason to dismiss facts. When I was...

Usually because the school isn't informed of the reason until after they've initiated action. I've seen this many times.

...and make it completely impossible for teachers to plan any sort of coherent curriculum. It would lead to you regularly losing large numbers of the class with no, or little notice, and pupils constantly being behind. Possible the single most stupid suggestion I've seen.

So what? Novovirus is one of many causative agents of gastro-enteritis. Do you think that now we HAVE discovered the virus and DO know how contagious it is we should ignore that information just because we didn't know 30 years ago?

On the contrary, it happens in MOST countries that people get jailed if they refuse to pay fines.