The sign hanging around Luis Blazer’s neck listed the reason he was standing outside with thousands of teachers Thursday evening, calling on the country’s second-largest school district to accept the demands of United Teachers Los Angeles.
Blazer has 45 students in his ninth-grade algebra class at Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School, a number he said is too high for him to effectively do his job.
“Class size is the main reason I’m here,” Blazer said. “If you have 54 minutes of class time and you have 45 students that means each student is getting less than two minutes of attention. No matter how good of a teacher you are, you’re always going to lose the group.”
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