Bigger classes? Yes, but pupils have got bigger too, say UK teachers

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Union delegates say walking into class is like entering the land of the giants

Schools are cramped not just because of bigger class sizes but because pupils themselves have got bigger, according to teachers who say they feel as if they’ve “entered the land of the giants” when they walk into class.

“It’s not just the number of pupils in the room, it’s also about the increase in size of the pupils themselves,” said Elaine Paling, a national executive member representing Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire. “When I look around [my school] now it’s not the fact that these rooms have shrunk it’s that the students have grown.”

 

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