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55 is a big number
I can't blame those teachers for making a big deal out of possibly having 55 kids in a classroom. I can imagine that parents aren't loving it either! When I was a teacher in a traditional honors/gifted classroom, I had one class of 36 gifted kids. I didn't even have enough room for that amount of desks and would have kids sitting in folding chairs while sharing a desk with a classmate. For exams, I would have kids using my desk. I had two honors classes that had 33 kids each. Florida has a class size amendment in place, but that does not apply to social studies classes and I would shoot daggers with my eyes at the language arts, math, and science teachers who complained about having 23-25 kids in a class.
As a virtual school teacher, I have 350 students. We don't have a union (charter school). My heart goes out to those teachers. Sadly, salary negotiation is the only bargaining chip that teachers have.
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