[Harry Lime]

I helped a teacher organize her classroom one night a couple of years ago. The class could physically fit 32 desks, and we had to figure out space for 40. Kids were sitting at the teachers desk and on high chairs stolen from a science room, using cabinets as a desk.

Also, the number is secondary to the needs of the students, which are becoming numerous. It's good that diagnosis of potential learning difficulties is getting better, but teachers are asked to account and adjust to all of them.

Also, the way that marking is done in classes like English is completely bonkers. Outcome based learning tailed to individual students and they can rewrite as many times as they like. Add that on top of illiterate students being pushed through or missed, and rampant cheating everywhere, and it's the responsibility of the teacher to catch it.

Now attach levels of bureaucracy to that. Nightmare.