Timetable woes

So, this year I'm teaching the year 10 accellerated class, and I'm teaching them Further Maths (lowest maths stream in the Victorian system). Unfortuantely, this is still a class of 50 and in the team teaching program. Even more unfortunately, the Powers That Be decided that, because the accellerated kids are "good", they don't need 3 teachers so they dropped that down to 2. Most unfortunately, in my class only about 6 kids chose to do Further, so the split is completely and utterly uneven.

What's happened at the moment is that the other teacher has half the class, all Methods kids. I have the rest of the Methods kids and my Further kids. So, I'm having to go through two lots of notes each lesson. This is BLOODY HARD. I spoke to the teachers in charge of the Maths department about my situation, and they immediately decided that this is an impossible situation for me to be in and that there is no way that anyone could possibly do this for a term, let alone a whole year, and not collapse into a sobbing, useless heap.

So now I wait for them to come up with some sort of strategy to deal with it. I will ask my Further kids if they're willing to move into Maths Methods while there's still time, but if even one kid doesn't want to then it won't change anything.

Hopefully something can be thought of because I'm currently feeling like a victim of Administration (though it'll look bloody good on my resuméé!)