In 24 years of teaching Torri Webber thought she had seen it all. That was until she entered her 25th year at Vidalia Lower Elementary School.

Webber, a first-grade teacher at the school, has four sets of twins in her class of 23.

“I have taught one student out of a set of twins, but I’ve never even had a complete set of twins in my room before,” Webber said.

A few weeks before school started Webber found out she would have three sets of twins, and a couple of days before school started the fourth was added.

“I was at the school working on my room, and they asked if I would mind having and three sets,” Webber said. “I said ‘Sure, go ahead.’ I thought it would be a fun challenge.

“Right before school started, they called me and said another set of twins had registered and since my room had the smallest number of students, they asked if I’d mind having them too. My thought was ‘What is one more? It will be fun.’”

And so far the experience has been a fun one.

Webber teaches Terry’Ondra and Terry’Onta Augustine, Abby and Adam Eames, Mason and Mitchell Luke and Carsyn and Conyr Taylor.

Parents of twins often request that they be in the same classroom and that was the case with the twins in Webbers room.

She said it helps parents to keep track of their student’s work and progress to have both in the same classroom.

“First-grade curriculum is the same across the board, but teachers teach it differently,” Webber said. “It helps some parents to keep track of what’s going on for students and makes it seem more seamless if students are in the same classroom.”

While most of the time having four sets of twins in her class has not been a problem, Webber said she had one firm ground rule to set early.

“The twins are together all the time when they are in the same school class,” Webber said. “The biggest challenge is making them understand that at school they can’t act the same way they do at home.”

And though the twins share a birthday and share many of the same likes and dislikes, Webber said after about a week, she started noticing the student’s very distinct personalities.

That was even the case for identical twins Mason and Mitchell Luke. But if both boys are quiet and sitting still, Webber said telling them apart is still hard.

“Mason has a birthmark on one of his fingers,” Webber said. “And, I’m not going to lie, there have been times that I’ve had to sneak over and look for that mark.”

Webber said even though this year has been unlike any others she’d gladly do it again.

“I’d even take five sets,” she said.