Last week was Parents’ Day at my school, a monumental undertaking involving 800+ students, 16 foreign teachers, countless Chinese staff, and many parents. Above are 4 of my former Grade 1 “babies”. Toothless Rick (more on him in a future post) introduced himself as 10-year-old Luke. The three-day performance now out-of-the-way, I can coast thru the next week, and live to see the end of the term.
Teaching overseas is a lot of work, but a lot of fun.
800 students to 16 teachers? Wow! That’s a huge number of kids per adult. Are the classrooms really as those numbers suggest?