Tammy Hoag
68:29 - 69:02
"Mr. Whitfield with his 330+ students would be teaching 3.3 times a larger capacity of kids than those teachers."
“Mr. Whitfield with his 330+ students would be teaching 3.3 times a larger capacity of kids than those teachers.”
- Speaker
- Tammy Hoag
- Timestamp
- 68:29 – 69:02
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- September 1, 2026
From the transcript
You barely can fit 55 to 60 kids in that classroom. But I want to go for this context, if you will, for a minute. If you took a choir or an orchestra class and they had about 100 students and their standard was 1.0 at a full-time employment, Mr. Whitfield with his 330+ students would be teaching 3.3 times a larger capacity of kids than those teachers. Let's just say you took another class and they had 150 students. That means there would be 5 classes with 30 students max.
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