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[quote=Anonymous]I added the percentages and what isn't accounted for is that there are now so many teachers who do NOT teach any students. They are "instructional coaches"  or "teachers on special assignment" who come in and tell teachers how to teacher and mandate busy work.

These instructional coaches should be intervention teachers taking out the lowest performing students and working with them instead of telling teachers how to help them but provide no actual extra time for the teacher to do so. Or they should be put in an English and Math teachers so that English and math classes have fewer students per teacher.

Look at a school with 1000 students and 30 students per class. A school would need about 7 English teachers, so each English teacher has to teacher about 150 students if they have 5 sections/periods  If you make the assigned literacy English coach go back and teach English now you have 8 teachers. Class sizes would be 26 to 27 students instead of 30. This might not seem like much but it really does make a difference. And across 5 classes to have to grade 15-20 fewer essays is huge.

Or you could have that extra teacher be an essay grader where they actually have the time to make comments on essays.

Or you could target 9th grade and reduce English class size to 18-20 for 9th grade so students get a strong start for high school. [/quote]

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