Posted by:
nomomomo
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Date: May 20, 2011 05:32PM
AngelCowgirl Wrote:
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> Rod, you sent me hunting!
>
> From the 2008-09 data put out by the National
> Center for Education Statistics, it looks like
> Utah was VERY LAST in overall total
> student/teacher ratio (23.7); second to last for
> kindergarten ratio (40.9) only ahead of Kentucky;
> very last for elementary ratio (33.9); 45th for
> secondary (16.2).
> There are also stats for the ratio to other staff,
> not just teachers, but I didn't look at those
> because I'm already feeling glum enough!
>
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/snf200708/tables/table> _04.asp
Every district is different-for example, my son attends a brand spankin new school, in fact his 3rd here in Alpine, but yet they don't have books for the kids, and each of his classes has at least 40 students, some up to 48 per class!!
I think this is unexcusable, and while this is 8th grade, elementary steadily got worse till there were 35 in his 6th grade class. There are so many damn kids they build a couple schools each year out here, still not enough. I wish he would go to a charter school, my UVU courses have less than 25 pepole per class.....