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F🌼 A💐 H🌹M 🌸A :
Stop complaining to us parents, there is nothing we can do. Have your union negotiate smaller class size. Its the same story every year!!!!
2026-09-05 18:33:23
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user7034609075112 :
Teacher for 35 years. I’ve taught 32 kids in K class, often. Large class sizes has been a major issue since the 90s. I can never understand why when research has shown over & over that smaller classes mean more effective learning.
2026-09-05 12:14:14
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Nope :
I was the start of the increase so we went up to 32 kids, teacher doesn’t have time to help anyone 👍
2026-09-05 13:24:52
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MrsCheesecak3 :
kids are our future, we should be properly funding education
2026-09-05 11:45:32
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AK :
That’s if you don’t have behavioral issues. Two besties is all it takes to take even a small class size of 10-15 downhill
2026-09-05 11:59:41
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HOLLA4TRUTH :
It’s fine Ukraine got 25 billion Canada can wait
2026-09-05 13:05:51
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Sisiem :
Parents can barely handle their own kid who 1-1 but teachers are supposed to take 38 strangers kids all together and teach them and keep it fun in a show box with no money for supplies 🙃
2026-09-05 18:41:33
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Memes-R-us :
The Ford Government at its best!!! Failing Ontario day by day
2026-09-05 11:37:31
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Kyle :
I thought there was a reproduction crisis globally, yet class sizes are overcrowded? Explain
2026-09-05 12:56:30
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user3660056172541 :
You also get paid 5 * more than your predecessors who had 30 students.
2026-09-05 13:23:36
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Stefan Young :
35 is average for Alberta :(
2026-09-05 12:20:22
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Benjamin 🇨🇦 :
Larger class sizes turn schools into 8 hour holding cells unit the day is done. It takes away the human experience of learning and shows children that individual assistance isn’t theirs to have. As someone who went from large class sizes to classes no larger than 8. I can tell you with utmost certainty, it’s the biggest issue and the reason our children are failing. We have failed them.
2026-09-05 12:46:14
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🇨🇦BAILEY🎀 :
in 2008 I had 34kids in my class.. this isn't new
2026-09-05 11:18:51
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6364637299t :
The class sizes are too big now with all of the behavioural and learning issues now
2026-09-05 11:38:06
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Gogettaa;$ :
So more students, more behaviours, one teacher. Then they wonder why student’s academic is declining
2026-09-05 13:18:02
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inaja16 🇨🇦 :
The government doesn’t make meaningful changes to classroom sizes because, from their perspective, the system continues to function. And I use “function” VERY loosely. Teachers keep overcrowded classrooms afloat. Students still get taught, graduate, and move on. Teachers and parents can provide years of feedback and statistics showing the consequences, but the system hasn’t completely broken down, so there’s no urgency to fix it. Unfortunately, it will probably take something drastic that can be directly tied to overcrowded classrooms to force meaningful change. Until then, teachers continuing to “manage” becomes the very excuse for allowing the problem to continue. 😐
2026-09-05 12:42:43
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The Last Word :
100% true.
2026-09-05 11:31:34
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AV :
Doug Ford’s Ontario—where kids lean on walls to learn because there’s so many kids in the class. Or they hold classes in lunchrooms to accommodate the number of kids
2026-09-05 16:19:16
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TK 🇨🇦 :
Yes! And too complicated. Time to go back to Vista classes and special programs. Not all kids belong in traditional schools and teachers are supposed to be teaching.
2026-09-05 11:55:55
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Seagoat 🇨🇦 :
My gr. 8 classes were 39, 40, 42
2026-09-05 12:33:30
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tyshadarechuk :
Thankfully THIS year my son is finally in a class of 10 !!!!!!
2026-09-05 16:40:34
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🥓 Today I'm The Hulk 🥓 :
When I was in high-school in the early 9ps we had 40 kids in my class. We all did fine. And so did the teachers without tech holding their hands.
2026-09-05 13:34:00
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James B :
This public school teachers complain and take sick days to go play golf and dont do any woek but complain
2026-09-05 12:18:03
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Adrian :
This is why I switched to online school my class size was ridiculously large had a hard time learning.
2026-09-05 17:16:40
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lzrd :
My classes were like that throughout the 2000s
2026-09-05 12:34:32
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