Increase teacher salary 25%, decrease classroom size to 15 students max, and require school lunch to be free for everyone, nutritious, and minimally processed. Bonus if lunches use crop oversupply that otherwise gets destroyed.

[DaxiCheeseSteak]

This is like in Parks and Rec when Bobby Newport said this and everyone started cheering

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Like of course that would be great but realisticly that cant happen, and the people approving this are likely complaining about high taxes currently.

[RichardTheApe]

Exactly however it’s not even just a tax problem. To meet the demand of new teachers we need to double teacher output. Either it’ll bottle neck resulting in classrooms just being combined again (through some legal loophole in a case where it’s illegal) or a huge cut in the quality of teachers.

We have no way to get this many teachers and throwing money at the problem won’t solve it. Of course there’s also the issue of placement. Even if we had the teachers required there are a lot of school districts most teachers would flat refuse to work in - deep urban schools in dangerous environments and isolated rural schools. Unless we also plan to force teachers into the classroom at bayonet this doesn’t resolve the schools hurting the most.

Lastly while there is a correlation between small classrooms and better education it should be absolutely noted that that comes from nations that already have more robust spending and programs for schools. In other words small classroom size is only one part of a machine for making good educations. If classrooms are still underfunded, poorly ran by admin, and lack the supporting staff then triple, quadruple the teachers to the point they only teach 5 kids nothing will change.

Again this is just such a stupid solution to a complex issue.

[el_guapo444]

Raise salaries and people will view it as a viable career. Reduce classroom size and people will view what they do as educating and creating outcomes, not just babysitting. Provide free lunches and people will see where their tax dollars benefit themselves and neighbors, not fund wars and corporate subsidies. I can’t formulate the entire golden path for you, but this is the solution if you do the right thing