Lee Butterfield
34:00 - 34:24
"At 24 students in a secondary classroom, learning ends and management begins. At 35 students in a secondary classroom, management ends and triage begins."
“At 24 students in a secondary classroom, learning ends and management begins. At 35 students in a secondary classroom, management ends and triage begins.”
- Speaker
- Lee Butterfield
- Timestamp
- 34:00 – 34:24
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 4, 2026
From the transcript
Um, I want to tell you a little bit about class sizes. I've been teaching here for about 2 decades, and while you have lots of studies that might give lower numbers and higher numbers, I want to give you an observation. At 24 students in a secondary classroom, learning ends and management begins. At 35 students in a secondary classroom, management ends and triage begins. I had multiple classes last year at 40, and that was before we lost the people we've lost coming into to now.
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