Chinese Teacher Confused by Twins

A young Chinese teacher in central China is very confused by the twenty of her twenty-two students who are twins.  Making matters worse, eighteen of them are identical twins. She states that giving direction and addressing the students has been a challenge.  She is slowly starting to know who is who by subtle differences in the behavior and appearances of the students.  A study conducted by the school has shown that there is not an abnormal amount of twins in the region. It is just a coincidence there are so many in one class.

I don't know if I would be able to handle a class of mostly twins.  It would be very hard to have productive school days when you cannot tell who is who.  How would you react to teaching so many twins?

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  • Better, but reply more frequently.

  • I don't think that I would be able to be in a room with so many sets of twins all the time. I would be so confused and stressed just trying to figure out who was who. 

  • Wow that would be difficult to handle. I has to be hard to know each of the children and their names. Its good that she is starting to figure it out though.

  • How weird! I would think that they now have a surplus of twins, but they just so happen to land in this poor lady's hands.  I don't think I could teach a class with that many identical twins.  That'd really confuse me and I'd probably just give up! Glad she could keep going and figure it out!

  • Wow must be a teachers worst nightmare.

  • That's crazy... If I was a teacher and had that many twins in my class, I would probably quit my job. I have a hard enough time telling the difference between one set of twins let alone nine sets of them

  • I think that I would hate to have a class with even 1 set of twins not to mention that many

    • I agree it would be hard to know who is who with just one set of twin in class.

  • I sometimes have trouble with just Mathias and Nathaniel Bjoin so I would probably go crazy

  • Geez, that would be difficult. It would take a while to get to know who's who, and by the end of the year when you finally know who's who, they would have to change teachers. 

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