I have more than 15 years experience in the classroom from preschool to first grade. I have taught in small community schools and urban schools. I have taught mostly at schools with low SES and high second language learners, in classrooms with low classroom ratios of 20:1 with some paras as well as large classes as much as 33:1 with no para. I have been in the same trenches many teachers face today. :0)