I mean 40k a year would make me rethink being a teacher too.

School begins before high school. There are elementary/junior high schools with graduating classes of 10.

My high school had 5 towns in it I think a lot of places in Maine are like that

I did get down voted, but I'm an engineer so I'm used to people only respect my opinions on these matters when they have to pay me for them.

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Mostly NH but they sometimes hike in the Maine mountains.

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Take this data with a grain of salt. I have 120 students a day. Divided over 6 periods I average 20 per class.

BTW I consider 20 per class reasonable given the age of students.

Special Ed classrooms might have 6 kids or less at a time but that work is much harder in some ways to a “regular” teacher.

The family center of maine.

>there are classes in my school that 40 students.

You're not a math or English teacher I hope.

Happy to help

Maine will hold onto that until the bitter end. Take Millinocket and East Millinocket. Do they really need two high schools?

Well there. I'm done for the day. Back to work and to watch it snow lol. Thanks for depressing me more than my credit card debt

I wish I was.

....please tell me you are joking

This person is a teacher, too.

Just summed up how bad our education system is lol

Do you understand what averages are?

My unfinished point (my bad) is that there are classes in my school that 40 students.

It's averaging the entire state, and 9.3 is an even better number than the 11:1 reported. Try again?

So fake data.

My school has an enrollment of 545 - we have 58 teachers so about 9 kids per teacher issue is that includes SPED courses with 5 kids in them, 1 to 1 behavior students.

... employment and enrollment figures

Yeah not surprising. Every town must have its own school even though they don’t have any kids. Doesn’t mean we have particularly good schools.

ikr? Pretty sure MaineDOT actually counts on that median space being available for cost effective snow removal.

How do they get this data?

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