Agree! Do work online - no buildings, no teachers - problem solved ! But really it’s just a Giant Daycare.
I live in this area, and it’s a joke! Over 500 School Districts with over- paid administrators. I call it the “Two Week Rule”. Our kid never goes to school longer that two weeks without a holiday or Late Start Day. Gave my little darling my blessing to Walk Out during Standardized Testing Week as a response to this nonsense.
The sheeple are more concerned about what to do with the little darlings than they are the tax increases. The understand the former and most don’t even pay the latter.
Don’t forget watching movies in class!
It is mostly day care. Literally speaking 1 person could teach millions these days. But each mind is different and some people learn at different paces or through alternate explanations. But that’s OK because 2 million people can teach 1 million people these days. If you think about it the way we teach kids hasn’t changed much in at least 100 years. The world has changed incredibly. It was designed to churn out future factory workers in a world that, by the time those born today graduate, will have seen millions or tens of millions of jobs disappear - transportation jobs, factory jobs, warehouse jobs, food preparation jobs etc are all going to vanish to automation, self-driving cars, robotic burger makers etc.
While I wouldn’t necessarily abolish school buildings, school systems and even ‘teachers’ are anachronistic. Education is a process, you need a certain foundation upon which additional knowledge is layered. Kids need some facilitation and direction. The current method requires they respond to the sounds of bells and sit arranged in neat little rows that discourages interaction, when they would learn a lot more if they could help each other peel away the layers of a subect. The current method of learning has a lot of starting and stopping and switching of topics many times in a day when real learning requires time dedicated to delve into a topic.
At the end of the day if we want a truly brilliant generation then they have to learn how to learn at an earlier age. That won’t happen in the very stifling environment that our public education systems are designed to be.