Sanity Check: Student-to-teacher ratios and class sizes

[gollygee]

11. I don't like the use of the term sociopath here, but you certainly have a percentage of kids

who have ADHD or something that makes them have trouble controlling themselves. And when I've volunteered in my kids' classes, you can certainly see that the teacher can handle one or two, but I can imagine at some point trying to teach a class with a number of kids like that would be more like herding cats than anything else, and there wouldn't be a lot of teaching going on. It would just be damage control.

Teachers work incredibly hard and are ridiculously underappreciated. They should be paid so much better for the work they do. And I think it's crazy that they are expected to buy school supplies for their classes if the parents won't or are unable to buy them.

It drives me crazy when I see people suggesting teachers don't work that hard or are well payed.