Learning pods are going to be better for most kids and certainly safer during COVID. As more parents come home to happier kids, the narrative that this is all somehow evil will intensify.pic.twitter.com/gysaw10tn2
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The subtle issue that I'm not sure how to resolve *well* is that if you have a 6-kid pod, I eyeball that as 5% of all employed Americans being teachers. And if you have 30 kid pods, it beats 1500-kid schools, but the chem *lab* was a lab for a reason.
The public education system already employs a tremendous number of people, many of whom do no direct instruction. I've mostly lost the sense that K-12 system is efficient even if the only metric is a freed up labor force.
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The average tenure of a k-12 teacher lasts only 4 years. That leaves a ton of ex teachers who may not be working who would be happy to earn the same teaching 6 kids as they did teaching 30.
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100%. Teacher turnover is crazy — especially given that nobody goes into that field expecting to get rich. I've talked to a lot of former and current teachers. They don't feel like they signed up to do the job the way they're forced to do it.
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