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A-roguebanana t1_jdeqnft wrote

Reply to comment by NotLindyLou in Maine has the lowest student/teacher ratio in the United States (11:1) by IrwinRSchyster1

I’ve never only ever taught in Maine and 15 is the sweet spot for 7-12. I consider myself lucky to never have had 30-40 students some teachers have.

Can’t believe anyone would complain about 15 students.

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Vryimpatnt t1_jdgxl0e wrote

I taught in CA for 15 years before moving here. My first year, and most of the next, class had 34 fifth graders. 25 were at some sort of English Language Acquisition level, 10 had IEPs. It was hard, but we did it. I don't get how Maine isn't knocking it out of the park, I really don't. My class this year has 18 kids, no ELA students and 3 IEPs. HOW in the heck do CA kids outperform ours? OR...why are our kids not outperforming theirs by a massive amount? I don't get it...

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