How Many Students Should we put in an English Class?

Sunday , 18 February

In the last class today, two new students came into my phonics class at 4:30. These two students are fine , but the parents are like disasters. One kid’s mom asked if we can put 7 kids in a class. In terms of our class principle, obviously, no. But according to my “breaking rules” rule , yes.

So I just collected parents’ opinions in the class group after the class.

How many students should we put in an English class in a training center?10？15？4？1?or 6?

Who on earth set this creative but ridiculous number for a class? Some people agree that students can speak more, learn more and interact with the teachers more in a smaller class in ONE HOUR. Indeed, however, the bloody fact is that no matter how many sentences a student learn and repeat in a class , it is not enough. It is just 1.5 hour,dude. I can’t believe that some  training centers even set the number of out put sentences in a lesson. You know my Chinese teacher never count how many key structures he set in the class!

So, with this NUMBER confusion, I still asked them if they accept the “breaking 6 people limited rule”.

If everyone is keeping breaking the class rules like this, I’m just going to have more money to live, that’s it. Then why was I bothered ?It was probably because one of the moms was so rude and disgrace.With a fat face , she talked and acted like a boss. Customer is never the god.It is just an metaphor! Why are there so many selfish and impolite parents out there? Why do they always like to break a training center’s rule ? “Oh,your center is too small.” “Oh,you should put 7 people in a class!” “Oh,the price is too high here!” “Oh,the time of a new class is too early here!”

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How about you go and open one shop?

It is not easy to be an English Teacher. Not only you should count the number of the students in a class, but also you should count the number of the key sentences structures.

I’m looking forward to seeing another fun issue. (Am I going to be the Issue attractor?)

4 people in a class

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