70,000 Feet In The Air

I was told by the Bishop today that there were about 1200 teachers and 34000 students in the present system in which we work. Of these, 240 teachers and 3000 students are in my workplace. The average teacher-student ratio is a bit less than 1:30, but where I work, the ratio is about 1:12.5. This is a tremendous advantage.

I was thinking about how many people this is all about. 35000 people roughly, and if they all lay down and stuck their feet in the air, there'd be 70000 feet in the air...

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This, of course, was W H Auden's take on it.