We here at the Ethereal Voice don’t much care for the factory method of educating kids. But if you are going to throw 30 odds kids and put them under one teacher, it is foolish to make them 30 odd kids with vastly different needs. The only way one teacher can have a hope teaching 30 kids is if their needs are roughly similar.
This is the basic fact of life that lies behind Scott Walker’s rant. Only, he wants to save public schools so we don’t think that he shares our views on factory education.
I appreciate the attention. I’m not sure I want to save public schools, but I would like children to have a better experience at school than the average convict in his penitentiary. Perhaps this is idealistic or just plain wrong, as some readers have persistently repeated in their comments. Oh well, I’ll mull it over.