A staff bathroom is located just outside the office. Each classroom has two exits, one to the interior and one to the play yard outside. The yard is surrounded by a chain-link fence to protect the children from running out into the street. There are two groups of children in each classroom. Classrooms are divided roughly in half by movable partitions four feet high, and each group stays primarily on one side of the partition.
State regulations control teacher-student ratios.
The same ratio applies in Room 2, the two year old classroom, which has children aged eighteen to thirty-six months. Because of these state-mandated ratios and the limited number of rooms in our building, Kids, Inc. can only care for a certain number of children, and there is always a waiting list to get in. Two head teachers and four assistant teachers are assigned to each classroom. However, they don't all work the same hours. This way, there are always enough staff in each classroom to satisfy the state ratios.