It depends on the school. When I first started, they put all of the new kids in my English class as if the English teacher across the hall didn't exist. We both started with an average class size of 25, but by year's end I had around 35 in each class while she only had 27. She was good friends with the counselor in charge of building the schedules.

At my current school, the kids are in cohorts for the most part. The worst kept secret is that they're grouped by behavior and aptitude. When new kids come in, "someone" looks at their grades and test scores from their previous school and assigns them to the appropriate cohort. The brand new teachers always end up with the worst behaved, lowest functioning group.

In our school, they tend to assign the kids who need special help because they are struggling academically or behaviorally or have LDs to the "top," or most experienced teachers.

The new kids are an afterthought for assignments unless their parents raise specific issues which most don't so sometimes a group of them wind up in the same class.

It does vary from year to year. One year a teacher had a really tough class the previous year so the administration tried to give her a break the following year by placing the more difficult students with other teachers. That resulted in her having more of the newer students.

Does the OP mean new students during the year or new students at the beginning of the year?

I was a teacher. I don't remember ever being concerned about whether a child was new to the school or not. It makes no difference at all.

They look at balancing the classes by number of students, gifted and talented, ESOL, IEPs, boys/girls, etc.

At our school they give the worst tester the new kids. My child has a new teacher and she didn’t get any new kids. The one they are trying to push out got all the new kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your question. Is there something wrong with having new kids in your class?

Just wondering if there is a rhyme or reason in the way they distribute the kids. For example, if they don't like a particular teacher, will they give that teacher 5 new kids?

Or maybe if they like the teacher a lot, they would give the teacher 5 new kids. Why are you assuming that having new kids is bad?

This is obviously not written by a teacher.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your question. Is there something wrong with having new kids in your class?

Just wondering if there is a rhyme or reason in the way they distribute the kids. For example, if they don't like a particular teacher, will they give that teacher 5 new kids?

Or maybe if they like the teacher a lot, they would give the teacher 5 new kids. Why are you assuming that having new kids is bad?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your question. Is there something wrong with having new kids in your class?

Just wondering if there is a rhyme or reason in the way they distribute the kids. For example, if they don't like a particular teacher, will they give that teacher 5 new kids?

The counselors place students at my school. It has nothing to do with who is liked, and everything to do with class sizes and elective scheduling.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your question. Is there something wrong with having new kids in your class?

Just wondering if there is a rhyme or reason in the way they distribute the kids. For example, if they don't like a particular teacher, will they give that teacher 5 new kids?

I don't understand your question. Is there something wrong with having new kids in your class?

Are putting new kids in your class a power play by principals or just divided equally?