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mk  ·  4970 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The myth of the extraordinary teacher
That much is true. Teachers in the US are asked to pick up the slack for bad parenting.

It would be better to pull problem kids from the productive classroom, and put them in a strict disciplinary program until they can earn their way out of it. Education is not a right for kids that don't behave.





alpha0  ·  4969 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Looking at the comments here, there appears to be some consensus on what works, what is problematic, etc. Issue is political/social will to make it happen.

Perhaps the root problem is not the classroom size, but rahter the scale of the socio-political unit.

mk  ·  4969 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Perhaps the root problem is not the classroom size, but rahter the scale of the socio-political unit.

Seriously. There are efficiciencies of scale, and then there are inefficiencies of scale. Sometimes we shouldn't enforce standardization not because the standards aren't good, but because implementing them isn't efficient.