[etni] Classrooms with 40 students

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In classrooms with 40 students, two-thirds of the lesson are spent keeping order 
By Or Kashti  Last Update: 13/11/2006 01:38
"You come to a school after a few years at university or college, but nothing you studied prepares you for 40 kids in a classroom," says D., a veteran history teacher at a high school in the center of the country. The problem of overcrowding in classrooms has grown worse over the past few years. According to Education Ministry statistics, nearly one-quarter of all the classes in the school system this year have between 33 and 45 pupils.
However, there are great differences among various sectors in the education system. For example, in the ultra-Orthodox sector, there are merely 10-14 pupils per class in about 11 percent of the classes, while in the state school system, only 1 percent of the classes claim so few pupils. And in the Arab educational sector, fewer than half a percent of classes have only 10-14 pupils ...
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