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33 Girls in a Class

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amother ↓

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 8:02 pm

My daughter is in grade school and has 33 kids in her class. Is that not a bit too many?

ShakleeMom

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 8:04 pm

on the 'more' side but you can't control it, can you? Do you have a say ??

yummydd

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 9:16 pm

WOW! that is a big class!

manhattanmom

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 9:28 pm

It certainly sounds like a big class, yes. What grade is your daughter in?
I remember in elementary school having more than 30 kids in my class for a year or 2...It's really big!!
I believe the Rambam said that the "ideal" class size is 24 students....

Maya ↓

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 9:43 pm

We had 37 kids in my class in high school, and I taught a class of 35 kids in the 7th grade.

↑ amother

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 9:44 pm

What kind of school is this? What grade? I am struggling to teach 25 third graders. Never had so many in one class. Does the teacher have an assistant?

Twizzlers

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 10:45 pm

I had 31 classmates thru elementary school....I think I survived LOL

↑ Maya

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 10:52 pm

amother wrote:

What kind of school is this? What grade? I am struggling to teach 25 third graders. Never had so many in one class. Does the teacher have an assistant?

It was Satmar school, 7th and 8th grades. And we did not have assistants. We were used to that number because we had that many classmates ourselves.

SingALong

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 11:12 pm

I had 32 kids in my class throughout elementary school it just got a little squishy with the desks sometime.
my DD just started school and I would love to know how many kids are in the class, we are still waiting for a complete class list.

smiley:)

Thu, Sep 11 2008, 11:32 pm

Come to Israel where that is a very normal thing. My son is in nursery - 32 kids and a teacher and assistant. And it's fully under control somehow. And unless you pay a lot (Israeli standards) that is what you get here.

Ruchel ↓

Fri, Sep 12 2008, 8:37 am

You used to have classes of 38, 39... 40 even in my school. No "assistant" of any kind.

shalhevet ↓

Fri, Sep 12 2008, 8:47 am

I wish there were only 33 in my dd's 3rd grade. They are 41 girls...

bubby

Fri, Sep 12 2008, 8:56 am

Excuse me, but I'm reading this in horror. You're not doing anything about it??? Do you pay tuition?? Over 25 in a class is outrageous. The quality of the learning is severely compromised & the teacher can't do her job. I know, I did it for 33 years! Why aren't you getting fellow parents together & making a fuss? And don't let them try the no space or no money to pay teachers nonsense. That's a cop-out.

Sorry, but this gets me so Exploding anger

Then we wonder why the kids have a lousy year, end up behind, & never catch up.

Clarissa

Fri, Sep 12 2008, 9:02 am

My son had fourteen to a class in preschool, with two teachers and a floater who was there sometimes. In elementary school, there was between 14 and 18 kids to a class, with two teachers. When they went to certain subjects (Math and Reading), they broke up into groups of between seven and ten, with one teacher. In middle school, the class sizes vary according to subject, but all are under twenty and some (in Math, for example) can be much smaller.

When I was growing up I went to public school, and the class sizes for elementary were about 25 kids to a class, with one teacher. In middle school and high school the classes were about 25 also but sometimes smaller, if it was an elective like Poetry or Chinese or something.

↑ shalhevet

Fri, Sep 12 2008, 9:19 am

bubby wrote:

Then we wonder why the kids have a lousy year, end up behind, & never catch up.

If you are talking to me (I think you were talking to everyone) - no, we don't pay tuition. This is BY and in Israel it is government funded. There is almost no private schooling in EY (the little that is is mostly chareidi chadarim - like where my sons go) and 40 is standard in State, State Religious and Chinuch Atzmai.

↑ Ruchel

Fri, Sep 12 2008, 9:22 am

Public schools are free, and they don't build enough of them. Many students had at least one course in a nasty prefab/ready built that is freezing in winter and HOOOOT in summer.

Private schools generally have smaller classes, but not necessarily. Jewish schools, that are not so common, may want to take any Jewish child that wants to be in.

Abigail

Fri, Sep 12 2008, 9:30 am

I teach 30 boys!! its fun, but a lot of work.
talk to the heads maybe they can split them.

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