There was all of about 30 kids where I went to school; we were all one clique.
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
Let's make Holberton one of the biggest schools on the face of the planet.
Every school is different and serves different populations.
At school, there were more Davids than any other name: more than 20 of us cousins out of 40 pupils. When my older cousins moved on, the school had to close.
I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate.
