Teachers often complain about big class sizes.

I'm not saying they're in the wrong for complaining or anything, I'm just saying that it could always be worse. For example, when I was student teaching I complained about my one class that had 35 students in it because all the rest of my classes had less than 30 and 35 was just too much to handle.  It really is amazing what a difference 5 extra students makes.

When school started this year I had 33 desks in my classroom.  My smallest class size was 36.  My biggest class size was 42. I asked for more desks.  They said we don't have any. My students sat on the floor for a while. They handled it like champs. I felt cramped and flustered.

Students got sick of sitting on the floor and transferred out of my honors classes and into my regular classes. Then I finally got more desks. They found some dusty desks in a closet somewhere.  I have 40 desks in my classroom now which was great for a while because I had 40 kids in my biggest class. They just transferred two more kids into that class and now two kids sit at my desk every day.  We'll make it work.

I think it speaks a lot about the public education system in this state that we don't even have enough desks to cram into a tiny room and give our students somewhere to sit.