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Well, it is very common in situations like this to have 2 to 4 assistants, and I can't believe without them it would be possible to avoid hard conflicts and eve

by zaat 5y ago

Well, it is very common in situations like this to have 2 to 4 assistants, and I can't believe without them it would be possible to avoid hard conflicts and even violence on regular basis.

Wistar 5y ago
She has no assistants and never has (I just asked her). Occasionally a student teacher but not for years, now. Some students, such as ESL or special ed, are pulled out of class for about 30 minutes from 2–4 times a week but, the recent district policy is called "push in" where the specialist comes in to class to assist a particular student or two.
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deepdmistry 5y ago
Growing up we had 60 instead of 24 students and 0 assistants and still no violence and less if none bad conflicts
- aklemm 5y ago
  Troll? Give some background info if this is to be taken seriously.
  - gcmeplz 5y ago
    I'm not OP, but depending on where in the world you are, classrooms with 50+ students aren't that rare even today: https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/13/anger-grows-in-china-over-school-crowding https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/13/anger-grows-in-ch... I'm most familiar with China (I taught middle-school classrooms of 55-60 in Yunnan around 2010, and had some friends in Guangzhou teaching 75-80), but I assume there have been & are plenty of countries with similar situations.
    - aklemm 5y ago
      Good perspective. I would've guessed when you get to numbers like that it would even be worth doing.
  - deepdmistry 5y ago
    Apologies for not giving context, i am from india and yes it was very common to have classrooms with 55-60+ students and simply 1 teacher.
analog31 5y ago
Each assistant is typically assigned to a single special needs kid.
geofft 5y ago
Where are you basing this on? In public schools in the US (at least in my hometown in Louisiana), schoolteachers don't get assistants of any sort. You get the occasional "student teacher," who is training to become a schoolteacher, but never more than one. Faculty at colleges get teaching assistants, but their job is hardly to help with conflicts or prevent violence, their job is to help with instruction, grading, writing homework assignments, etc. When I was a teaching assistant, I myself tended to have 10-20 students in my section, and the class as a whole had close to a hundred people.
KittenInABox 5y ago
Can you let us know which public school system has 2-4 assistants in a 24-person kindergarten classroom so I can move there when I have children?
sokoloff 5y ago
We are in a pretty well-funded district. None of our kindergarten classes have 2-4 assistants for a class of 24. Most have zero.

by zaat 5y ago

Well, it is very common in situations like this to have 2 to 4 assistants, and I can't believe without them it would be possible to avoid hard conflicts and even violence on regular basis.

Wistar 5y ago

She has no assistants and never has (I just asked her). Occasionally a student teacher but not for years, now. Some students, such as ESL or special ed, are pulled out of class for about 30 minutes from 2–4 times a week but, the recent district policy is called "push in" where the specialist comes in to class to assist a particular student or two.

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deepdmistry 5y ago

Growing up we had 60 instead of 24 students and 0 assistants and still no violence and less if none bad conflicts

aklemm 5y ago
Troll? Give some background info if this is to be taken seriously.
- gcmeplz 5y ago
  I'm not OP, but depending on where in the world you are, classrooms with 50+ students aren't that rare even today: https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/13/anger-grows-in-china-over-school-crowding https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/13/anger-grows-in-ch... I'm most familiar with China (I taught middle-school classrooms of 55-60 in Yunnan around 2010, and had some friends in Guangzhou teaching 75-80), but I assume there have been & are plenty of countries with similar situations.
  - aklemm 5y ago
    Good perspective. I would've guessed when you get to numbers like that it would even be worth doing.
- deepdmistry 5y ago
  Apologies for not giving context, i am from india and yes it was very common to have classrooms with 55-60+ students and simply 1 teacher.

analog31 5y ago

Each assistant is typically assigned to a single special needs kid.

geofft 5y ago

Where are you basing this on? In public schools in the US (at least in my hometown in Louisiana), schoolteachers don't get assistants of any sort. You get the occasional "student teacher," who is training to become a schoolteacher, but never more than one. Faculty at colleges get teaching assistants, but their job is hardly to help with conflicts or prevent violence, their job is to help with instruction, grading, writing homework assignments, etc. When I was a teaching assistant, I myself tended to have 10-20 students in my section, and the class as a whole had close to a hundred people.

KittenInABox 5y ago

Can you let us know which public school system has 2-4 assistants in a 24-person kindergarten classroom so I can move there when I have children?

sokoloff 5y ago

We are in a pretty well-funded district. None of our kindergarten classes have 2-4 assistants for a class of 24. Most have zero.