[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 21 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H855-H856]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 GET ADVICE ON EDUCATION FROM EDUCATORS

  (Mr. FROST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues have ridiculed the 
President's proposal to hire 100,000 new teachers and to reduce class 
size to 18. I would suggest that they may want to get out of Washington 
and talk to some real people about this issue. I did just that last 
weekend.
  My daughter, Alanna, is a third grade public schoolteacher in the 
suburbs of

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Cincinnati, Ohio, and I had a chance to visit with Alanna. I asked her, 
``What do you think about the president's proposal?'' She said, ``Well, 
dad, right now my class size is 25. If it were reduced to 18, I could 
be a better teacher. I could spend more time with the 5 or 6 kids in my 
class who really need help.''
  Mr. Speaker, I would urge my Republican colleagues, instead of 
blindly opposing this very important proposal by the President to 
reduce class size from 25 to 18, get out and talk to some public school 
teachers and find out what is really going on in the real world.

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