Simple Arithmetic

Re “Teacher Layoffs Considered in L.A.,” April 3: Being a student in the Los Angeles Unified School District, I cannot believe that the school board has proposed to cut the school budgets in the areas where money is needed the most. As it is, some of my classes have over 40 students. If teachers are laid off, the class sizes would be even larger. In particular, my school began to go on a year-round schedule three years ago. Since this change, the school’s test scores have dropped each year. If the teachers get laid off, then what will happen to the test scores?

Andrea Wong

Sylmar