Steven Holt: “I visited nearly 100 schools in my district; and everywhere I go across the five counties that I represent, I hear from…”

“I visited nearly 100 schools in my district; and everywhere I go across the five counties that I represent, I hear from parents and teachers and administrators and students about the problems of overcrowding. It is no wonder the number of school children, certainly in my part of the country and in many other parts of the country, is setting record levels. We are experiencing what is sometimes called the echo of the baby boom, and there are schools where the student population has doubled in the past 10 years. I can show my colleagues school districts where the kindergarten is twice the size of the 12th grade. We do not have to have higher mathematics to understand the implications of that for school construction. The classrooms are overcrowded. To alleviate this, many schools are turning to trailers. Trailers may be a temporary solution.”