When I read in the Irish Times on Tuesday that there are more than 50,000 pupils in Ireland in classes with 30 children or more and more than 250,000 in classes with 25 or more I nearly fell off my chair. And it wasn’t even one of those teeny-tiny ones they have in junior infants.
I should not have been surprised because when we moved back from the UK over a year ago and my son went into 6th class, it numbered well over 30. “There are just so many of them” said everyone who ever witnessed the class en masse, including the teacher who worked miracles every day.
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