Lem Wheelis
24:26 - 24:59
"I will have 45 students sitting in my classroom."
“I will have 45 students sitting in my classroom.”
- Speaker
- Lem Wheelis
- Timestamp
- 24:26 – 24:59
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 4, 2026
From the transcript
Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board, for the opportunity to address you this evening. My name is Lem Wheelis, and 2 weeks from now I will begin my 23rd year teaching at Diamond High School. When students walk into my classroom on August 20th, I will face a situation I have never faced in my entire career as a teacher. I will have 45 students sitting in my classroom. Anticipating this increase in class sizes last spring, I did some research on the fire code and room capacity regulations in Alaska.
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