So, I was trying to think about how to get poorer districts good teachers at a price that the residents can actually afford and I suddenly was struck with an idea. It goes a little something like this:

A Schedule

3 hours - 15students/teacher	Math, Language, World/local knowledge
1.5 hours	Lunch, Recess and Freeplay
3 hours - 50students/teacher	Group Problem Solving, Creative Expression and Dance

B Schedule

3 hours - 50students/teacher	Group Problem Solving, Creative Expression and Dance
1.5 hours	Lunch, Recess and Freeplay
3 hours - 15students/teacher	Math, Language, World/local knowledge

What Problems Does it solve?
1.) Oversized classes - There is no way that you can pay talented teachers what they deserve without forcing them to teach more students. It's a simple aspect of mathematics. Each member must put forward a certain amount of their income (an income otherwise used for food, shelter, etc.) towards child education. The greater the class sizes, the fewer each person has to pay. So, since it can't be afforded you can either teach children less well or teach children a lower amount of time.

I see it this way: you either a. have a classroom with 30 children that nobody can keep track of and nobody can teach for 6 hours OR 2. You can have fifteen children each for half a day that you will teach effectively for 3 hours.

Community oriented thinking - While it may seem stupid to teach people how to draw or dance on such a large scale, think of all the large scale artistic projects that required that many people. Think about spending a week building a playground for the school. Think about teaching groups of fifty how to dance in synch. Think about doing group problem solving exercises amongst a group large enough to actually represent real populations. Talk about mini-society, plays, presentations, research projects, all of which require the help and minds of many people and how little opportunity we get in classes to actually allow children to develop those large group working skills. Combine that with the intellectual advantages of small classroom learning, I hope you see where I am going with this. Besides, creativity is best done uninhibited making it ideal for the large spaces.

HOW COME OUR SYSTEM STILL WORKS

1. We have people paying for a service they don't use.
2. We have children teaching themselves.
3. It actually isn't working, which is why we have such high divorces, law suits, crime rates, etc. People have forgotten how to work as a team.

So, there's the big idea. What say you oh people of Nutang, can you spot me with some group thinking?

You've got a very interesting idea here, but I think that if I had gone to a school where we had to dance for part of the day I would've flunked out, because I've always hated dancing. XP
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