Yes - -I'd agree with your guess that in order to teach hundreds and hundred of students at the same time, the school is using an "army" of grad students.
In an effort to understand the development of education in the US, I've been doing a bit of reading about the development of education in England (not Great Britain). Since so many of the American traditions were brought to this country by English settlers (or rebels), I thought I might gain some useful understanding of our educational practices.
Here's what I learned (mostly from Wikipedia)
In the mid-1800s, to provide for England's newly-industrialised and (partly)
enfranchised society, various types of school began to be established to offer
some basic education to the masses. One of the types of education introduced was identified as a "Monitorial school." In this model, the teaching was based on the Bible, but it employed a new method involving the use of monitors and standard repetitive exercises so that one
master could teach hundreds of children at the same time in one room. It was
the industrialisation of the teaching process.
H-m-m-m - -sound familiar?
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