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Originally Posted by Slava
The ratio for K-4 is 17-1. How do you figure that more kids don't hurt though, despite all of the evidence to the contrary?
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If it really was 17 kids in a class then sure there'd be room for a few more, though each additional kid limits some of that one-on-one time with the teacher. My wife teaches grade 3 and has 29 kids in her class, and that isn't out of the ordinary talking to other teachers I know and seeing the classes at both my wife's school and the schools my kids are in. At that number it starts to get pretty unmanageable for the younger kids, particularly when half of them don't speak much English or have special needs.