An Odessa, TX article reads,

Chuck Isner, President of the regional chapter of the Texas State Teachers Association, agrees. “It’s really disconcerting to have legislators, in a time when we’re talking about the crisis in education, talking about increasing class sizes,” he said. “Particularly in the early grades where the need is so great.”

Is a narrative of crisis necessary to defend small classes? I even worry that my own assertion of a “childrearing crisis” in my book is problematic. Crisis talk gets heard, but does it backfire?