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[quote=Anonymous]At my IB elementary school (a 40/40 school), nearly 12% of the kids enter over the course of the school year and about 8% leave.

So in a 350 kid school, that means 42 kids come mid-year. They aren't coming to PK, so that's 7 new kids per grade in K-5. Every single classroom has 2-4 new kids over the course of the year, and loses 2 or 3 kids. 40+ of the 42 kids who come in are at-risk. If they match the rest of the school population, 10 qualify for special ed services.

What is it like to be a teacher who already has more than 20 kids in a classroom (because based on enrollment it looked like 2 classes of 20 but now it's a class of 22 and a class of 23), nearly all of whom are poor, 5 of whom have IEPs, most are well below grade level, everyone's experienced trauma...and every other month you get a new kid to integrate into all of this?

How do you find time to meet all the different needs?

What support services would you need to make that work?

When a position opened up at a different school, what would make you stay?

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