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> On Jul 27, 11:40 am, "Lawrence Akutagawa" sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:

>> "Lawrence Akutagawa" sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>

> [...]

>> Wow! Given these numbers, it is easy to see how the average public
>> school
>> student teacher ratio in the islands is around 17. Lookit - aside
>> from the
>> two outliers, nothing higher than 23! When I attended Hilo
>> Intermediate,
>> Hilo High, and Kaimuki High "way back when" the ratio ran minimally
>> around
>> the low to mid 30's. And I can vaguely recall one class with
>> something
>> like
>> 42 students - teacher complained and some kind of adjustment was
>> made.
>> Need
>> to dive into the yearbooks and see!
>>
>> [Did a quick, random count of home room pix - high school in the
>> lower 30s;
>> intermediate school in the higher 30s]

>
> Lawrence,
>
> there's no contradiction between the one and the other. Your home room
> can easily
> have 42 students and the teacher/student ratio be way lower if there
> are enough
> teachers without home rooms. Count the special ed teachers, music,
> art, PE, shop,
> home ec., etc., and you get completely different numbers from what you
> counted
> in your home room.
>