I am fucking pissed

[CurlyQ284]

Wowww what is going on with schools on here? That's unacceptable, I hope it gets straightened out!

[Deleted]

That's ridic.

[Deleted]

JFC. This is ridiculous

[Deleted]

That is awful, the parents should be complaining like whoa. I would flip my shit if they did that to my kid.

I hear about laying off teachers and schools closing and I was wondering what they do with all of those extra students. Guess they just throw them in.

What a mess. I'm sorry, I hope it all gets worked out!

[bananapancakes]

That is absolutely ridiculous. I am so sorry!

[candreco]

OMG, poor you and poor kids. That is really, really unfair to all of you

Is this just first day disorgnaization on the school's part and there will be some reshuffling, or is this permanent? Is there even room for 15 more seats in the room?

[Kristinmo]

Will they hire another teacher? DH's classes are usually like that the first couple of weeks but then they bring someone new in.

[5thofjuly]

No, no, no, no, no. Three words you need to use with your administration right now: "Fire Marshall's Code."

[emjacobs]

Our county just re-districted the middle schools, we had a few schools that were 105-120% capacity and one that was at 60%. Parents are up in arms about their kid going to a school that is a little further away but seriously the schools are busting at the seams, something needed to happen.

[greenmonster]

Woah. That is terrible!

[Jalapeñomel]

I love that we'd cut the budget for education so much that this is what our classrooms look like.

[karmasabiotch]

People are leaving MI so quickly that we have schools shutting down yearly.

This is so messed up.

[jssymom14]

That blows! I had a year like that where we didn't have enough textbooks for all the students. Also, when you get that many kids (especially 7-9th grade) it starts to smell a little rank by the end of the day.

[Deleted]

I'm so sorry Tators. This is BS.

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Aug 20, 2013 13:26:00 GMT -5 jssymom14 said:

That blows! I had a year like that where we didn't have enough textbooks for all the students. Also, when you get that many kids (especially 7-9th grade) it starts to smell a little rank by the end of the day.

This happened to me as a student, several times. My town went through a HUGE population BOOM, and suddenly there just wasn't enough space one year. In HS I had classes in this weird long dormant part of the building with dust and crap everywhere. Again HUGE influx of kids that year.


When my Mom was in school she had to go in sessions because the population of the town was expanding faster than they could build the new schools.

It's a big part of the problem of living in an second rung suburb that has big jumps and dips in population.

[AHappierHour]

That's awful for you and the students!

[game blouses]

Hopefully the kids will go home and tell their parents that they're sitting on the floor. I can't imagine not making a phone call if I found out that my kid didn't have a desk.

[W.T.Faulkner]

I hope the parents of your students find out and pitch a fit.  Encourage the kids to go home and tell!

I'm not saying I've ever done that (cough.)

[ohiowan]

That's a joke. I can't even imagine what kind of mad classroom management skills you have to have to deal with a class of 45 students.

Do you at least have an aid or resource teacher in there with you?

[emjacobs]

Take a picture of the classroom and email it to the superintendent?

[strawberriquen]

That's what I would call crowd control, not educating. How in the *F* are you expected to teach 45 students? Maybe some should anonymously call the fire chief for a surprise inspection. My school gets those a bunch in the beginning of the year.

[wannabe]

Oh man, this sounds miserable. For everybody!

[shananagins]

Aug 20, 2013 12:30:56 GMT -5 calamity said:

Eta I didn't mean to hit post yet

I hear about laying off teachers and schools closing and I was wondering what they do with all of those extra students. Guess they just throw them in.

What a mess. I'm sorry, I hope it all gets worked out!

This is exactly what they do. I had one class where I had 2 chairs at each desk because there was no way to fit a desk for each kid in the room.

Classes of over 30 kids are becoming the norm.

The cuts to education are greatly affecting the quality of the education we can provide. It is also driving great teachers out of the classroom.

[snickers]

Holy shit!