This 1958 Film produced by the National Education Association urges parents and educators to join together to solve the problem of overcrowding in schools. The film features a teacher that wants to resign after her class size doubles and she has to resort to mass teaching, which does not allow her to give individual attention to each child. The mother of a left behind child sees the condition of the school and begins attending school board meetings to help improve the funding situation for the school.

National Education Association and the California Teachers Association (0:10), “Crowded Out” (0:23), a school building from the outside and the inside (0:27), an empty classroom with a teacher writing her resignation (1:06), the classroom transforming to how it used to be including a science corner, library, and a special projects corner (1:53), student reading a report she wrote in the classroom (2:38), kids taking a field trip to a Switchboard Operator and then recreating what they saw in the classroom (3:09), teacher explaining how to reach someone by phone who is far away while students ask questions (4:45), children drawing (6:37), children working together in small groups (6:51), close ups of the children’s faces (8:03), students learning how to spell (8:52), teacher individually helping a student (9:26), teacher dismissing students (10:11), students playing on the playground (10:30), an industrial plant being constructed (11:03), new children being brought to the classroom and introduced (11:57), animation of more and more students joining (12:30), students in a completely overfilled classroom with some bored and messing around (12:48), teacher teaching without individual help (14:16), close ups of the children in the new classroom (14:51), a teacher staff meeting (15:30), teacher supervising students on the playground (16:20), teacher teaching to the full classroom (16:43), teacher sitting frustrated at her desk in the empty classroom (17:51), student from the classroom sitting at home practicing reading with a family member (18:43), the mother enters and speaks to the family member (19:45), the mother at her job speaking to a customer (20:40), different shots of the child (21:00), mother calls the school (21:43), mother speaks with a school board member (22:25), mother speaking with the principle (23:17), mother being given a tour of the school and sees that it is overcrowded (23:58), a school board meeting with the mother present (25:18), the teacher sitting in her empty classroom (26:31), the child reading to the teacher (26:52), presented by the National Education Association and Affiliated State Education Associations (28:13), directed by Irving Rusinow (28:21).