• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    That is a horrifying number.

    Imagine going to an average school in the US, looking into the first classroom and every kid in there is dead.

    Then you keep walking down the hall, the next 5 classrooms you check are the same, every kid dead except the 6th one has a couple still alive.

    That’s how you can help contextualise this cold hard number, based on an average class size of around 20.

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      1 month ago

      based on an average class size of around 20.

      Legitimately surprised that number is accurate…

      But I googled it. And it is the average in America.

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          30 days ago

          Not the person you replied to but for interest, It was 25 hard capped in grade school only because of the program I went through back years ago, though looking now 25-30 is petty consistent in that region as of last year. Highschool was larger, maybe 30, less once going into upper year courses, literally 8 of us took comp sci and that was combined gr11 and 12

          Ontario, Canada for reference. 20 seemed low to me too tbh, but not out of the realm of possibility.