I asked how many students he taught. “There are ninety-four,” he said. “How many classes?” “One class.” “You have ninety-four students in one class?” “Yes,” he said. “It’s very crowded!” After the conversation, I tried to imagine what it would be like to teach English to ninety-four middle-school kids in a remote Yangtze village.
I have a Facebook friend who teaches in a middle school in Kenya who has this many students in his class. It seems incomprehensible that you could teach a class that large!
