 What they need most of all is not more attention from the teacher. What they need most of all is another person, a peer, who is learning at the same pace as they are, so they don't feel marginal and isolated. You need to have someone who's asking the same questions, struggling with the same problems. If a class gets too small, the struggling kids are just wiped out. And that's something, you know, a lesson that is so routinely violated. You know,