>>11199604>>11199654>another poster makes a tldr list refuting every single point>it's actually accurate and refutes the points with relevant informationTeacher here. Almost all of this is spot-on.
1,2,4: YES, we fucking WANT more teachers, smaller classes, and less integration! It makes it easier to give each student the support they need to understand a subject and socialize, without the handful of ace students pushing the pace of class too fast or the handful of weak students dragging the class behind. But it is economically impossible, schools just don't have enough money to hire that many teachers, and if you decrease the amount of money teachers get paid, you'll lose most teachers. Most of the problems of class sizes and less special support is because schools can't afford to hire more people.
7: Why not set up inter-class collaboration? Teach them to work together, even with people who aren't familiar, to make something greater than what one person could. Teach them that friends help more than enemies.
5, 8, 9: Again, YES! This would be the greatest solution to the "bloated curriculum" problem (in theory): You just train each student in exactly the subset of skills that they need for the career they will enter, and train them much better and more thoroughly than the current rush-job of most colleges/universities! But, mostly like the other anon said, it's not that NO student knows what they will do for the rest of their life at 12 years old, it's just that MOST don't. Hell, people even change career paths into high school and university. To afford people the freedom to become whatever they may decide at any time, thus enabling them to find and follow their passions through experience, the school system is forced to teach us "a bit of everything, just in case".
10: Trust me, you do not want to see how a teacher fares with only a week to prepare a year's (or several months') worth of lessons, projects, activities, and tests for every new classroom.
