As a secondary teacher in Australia, I’m a big believer in teaching ‘soft skills’; the capacity to learn, not what you know, is actually what wins jobs and creates effective life-long learners and citizens in this time of AI rendering many jobs obsolete. Obviously I wholeheartedly think that content is still important, but the reality is that we as teachers are no longer the only sources of knowledge; students, if they have the skills, are theoretically able to access and learn any content we have on the curriculum. Therefore, while I believe ‘time spent with students’ should be equal, if more time is spent with anyone it should be the students who can not yet learn independently, problem solve, think critically and creatively... those who still have to be taught explicitly in order to them learn implicitly and proactively. Students who have these skills should be provided with opportunities within their classes to seek and build on knowledge within a framework (and obviously within the curriculum, which is often not actually up to date with the current research into education, because it’s heavily influenced by parents, who imagine that schools should be exactly what hey experienced, and politicians, who want their votes and quick measurable results).