“When Robin McLane’s generation hit public schools in the 1950s, there were never enough classrooms or teachers to accommodate the bulge,”
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I was a new teacher in the mid fifties.
I had 39 students in my first grade class and no aides or assistants in those days.
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“I had 39 students in my first grade class and no aides or assistants in those days.”
In the 40s if there wasn’t 43 in the class they combined classes.