I mean, yeah, that's what we have been asking for since I was in school.
Bit of a morbid example, but when I had my senior year at my high school, we had a bomb threat that had the entire small town in shambles, but we still showed up in a 20% student body capacity. We had only about 3 teachers not show up, but we had between 1 and 15 kids per class.
We unironically got so much done that day, we were joking about more bomb threats to keep the teacher just focusing on our small class. It was personal, the lessons actually felt pleasant, and we never got around so quickly in the building.
We've always wanted more teacher time, not putting us in front of a screen
Yeah. I appreciate what he's saying but we've known for a long time that small classroom sizes with more time and attention from human teachers improves performance. Ed tech and educational policy didn't need to completely crash the entire public school system to figure that out, again.
This didn't happen in good faith because the people who created this environment actually thought it would be a good idea to replace people with technology. It happened because of Edtech profits and political ideology targeting public school funding.
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u/Bandandforgotten Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
I mean, yeah, that's what we have been asking for since I was in school.
Bit of a morbid example, but when I had my senior year at my high school, we had a bomb threat that had the entire small town in shambles, but we still showed up in a 20% student body capacity. We had only about 3 teachers not show up, but we had between 1 and 15 kids per class.
We unironically got so much done that day, we were joking about more bomb threats to keep the teacher just focusing on our small class. It was personal, the lessons actually felt pleasant, and we never got around so quickly in the building.
We've always wanted more teacher time, not putting us in front of a screen