At the bottom again

The newest national academic test results once again find California's fourth- and eighth-graders stuck near the bottom in reading ability, outperforming only Washington, D.C., according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Hey, here's an idea. Let's raise class sizes and fire more teachers so more kids will not get the help they need.
Sorry for the sarcasm but I am astonished once again by the short sightedness of our politicians. If we raise class sizes in the LAUSD to 29 to 32 to 1 in K-3 and 38-42 in 4,5,6, there will simply not be enough time in the day to reach all students. Teachers will have to "teach to the middle" in the hopes of reaching the most minds that they can. Whatever extra time they have will be given to extending and challenging their gifted kids and keeping the lowest from sinking altogether.
The group that is on the border between basic and proficient are the ones who will suffer the most. They are the ones we would normally reach in one on one time during the day, but with so many students in the room, and so much content to cover to appease the testing gods, that will not happen to the extent it should. They will fall behind and the next year they will fall back further, and so on until they reach 5th grade and are woefully behind and not even close to being ready for middle school.

The simple fact is: we need qualified teachers in small classes to teach the curriculum we have been mandated to teach. Every legitatimate study in the last 10 years bears out that fact. There is a reason a few years ago we passed legislation for class size reduction. If we do not find the money to make that happen, scores will fall, children will be left behind, and a generation will not be able to compete in the modern world.
Write your California Legislators and the Governor and tell them the survival of public education rests on their shoulders. If they fail to raise the revenue to fully fund the educational needs of the districts and their teachers, then they bear the responsibility of the failure of a generation of students.