That would cost more, and reading the blog makes me want to send less money to the public schools.
High school should be completely optional. Those who want to go will benefit from it and those who don’t won’t be there to make trouble.
Move the high school teachers to middle school and elementary for smaller classes.
I see people on twitter and reddit bitch about having to learn calculus and never using it.
But you know? I don't remember how to use calculus at this moment either, but I remember concepts of it measuring infinitesimal increments of change, and how derivatives and integrations relate to rates of change.
I don't remember the mechanisms of all my teachings in school, but it made me appreciate bridges, combustion engines, biology and literature.
The honest question is: How do we determine when a child/teenager has no capacity or will to understand the beauty or utility of advanced learning, and what do we do with them?
Especially as automation takes over in the next 30 years and we have millions more out of work because we don't need taxis, truck drivers, farmers, or 60% of food service?
A pre-recorded video you can pause and rewind would be more beneficial than being corralled into an overcrowded stale box and expected to learn.
Giving struggling schools less money when they require larger and more diverse funding almost definitely isnt the answer. The average public school teacher still spends a huge amount of money every year to buy stuff for their class to use, and we expect them to continually do that throughout their career.
Anand Giridharadas addresses this in his infamous google-talk quite nicely I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM&t=623s (I'm linking this talk on HN way too often, but it just seems perfectly fitting so very often)
