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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
More kids would get better grades and be better students if they were surrounded by less kids and more teachers.
On a superficial level you can look at it as if they are babying this generation , but I don't think so. It's a byproduct of schools teaching less and better grades being harder to attain. There are larger groups of have-not students now than their were before and the work necessary to compensate in terms of homework is often not worth the effort. That says nothing for those students who simply have no aptitude for high level academic achievement but who might otherwise have tremendous skillsets that need honing.
What troutman is saying is a serious problem for some students and is only getting worse as the deficit in education these kids get needs more homework hours to compensate for. Kids are simply learning less in an 8 hour period than the preceding generation, and teaching skills have increased.
The consequences of larger class sizes and increased instances of learning disabilities are not only detrimental to teachers, it's mostly detrimental to the students who are not learning as much as their parents did during the same time period with the same effort.
The amount of homework being done by kids now is to compensate for the amount of work they weren't getting done in class. Not because their teacher is bad, but because their class has 10 more students in it than their parent's class did.
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To add to this, many families are hiring former teachers to help their kids with the school work at night in order to make sure they achieve the required grades...
Class sizes are steadliy increasing, amount of teachers tend to decrease....