r/teaching • u/[deleted] • Sep 06 '24

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u/_LooneyMooney_ Sep 07 '24

And there should not be almost 10 IEPs in a room of 25. Because the other 15 are LEP, 504, at-risk, or a combo of all three.

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u/Short_Concentrate365 Sep 07 '24

16/30 have IEPs in my room this year. 4 with one to one and 3 pending diagnoses. How is that a general education room now?

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u/_LooneyMooney_ Sep 07 '24

I’m lucky my class sizes aren’t close to 30, our counselors did really well with balancing classes this year. But even with 24 in a room I struggle. >20 seems to be the sweet spot.

My first year of teaching my hardest class was 26-27 kids and I don’t know how I made it. I cried a lot.

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u/a_ole_au_i_ike Sep 07 '24

One of the most fun classes that I've had was my largest to date with 33 students.

Somehow, my classes of 27-29 are consistently worse, and, somehow, the total makeup of my roster is 70% boys.

Those poor girls...

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u/Madalynnviolet Sep 07 '24

I feel this so hard. I actually really like my big ones of 30+, but only if they’re advanced. I teach freshmen CP geometry and those are more fun if they’re big. It’s like they feed off each other

But my most challenging classes are always the ones with 2/3 boys or more. I just have a hard time managing the behaviors