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Originally Posted by jibber
^my high school had about 3000, average class size about 30-35. Your school may have larger class sizes, but at mine at least, the size didnt hinder you at all if you actually wanted to do well. High school isn't really all that hard, sure some people have difficulties with some subjects, but if you're not lazy and actually put in the work, its pretty much easy as hell to get through. and kevorkian logic, college is way better, you're there with people who actually WANT to be there (well, the vast majority anyways), and generally, all the people who have the maturity of a 15 year old tend to skip out on the whole college thing. they're too busy going to clubs and attending beauty school.
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I never found that large class sizes at school were a hinderance (apart from sometimes having to sit so far back that you couldn't see the board past all the people sat in front), it would be better to say that small class sizes are a boone. From having tutorials at uni I can see how having a small class size would be especially helpful in subjects where discussion is useful, or where it helps to have somebody pick you up on your mistakes. To learn to speak a second language well in a class of 10 you just have to be there, to learn to speak it in a class of 30 you have to be something of a genius. I think that was evidenced when I was an undergrad with my friends who studied Spanish or French (I knew about 15 people doing one or both of these subjects). As far as I could tell, the majority of people studying Spanish or French there had been to a private school but almost everybody who got a 1st (the top grade classification) was from a state school. It seemed that in order to learn the language well enough to get onto the course students at state schools had to be quite exceptional at languages whereas at private schools it was so much easier to learn the language that a lot of very average students were able to do so, with their averageness showing once they got to university.