On October 21st, 1998, President Bill Clinton created an initiative to hire 100,000 teachers and reduce class size in the earlier grades to an average of 18 students. This initiative sparked debate across the country. Clinton believed that having a large class sizes made it difficult for teachers to retain the attention of students as well as focus on students that may need individual attention if they are struggling. Several people who were against this initiative claim that reducing class size will not better the effects of teaching and will just be a wasted expense (Clinton link). Decreasing class size means more classrooms need to be built and more teachers need to be hired. In some schools, this could be a problem because they may not
