1. Restore public education to solely local control. No policy decisions should be made at higher than the county level, and 80 percent or more should be made for individual schools by their administration, with regular oversight from local committees composed of regular people from the neighborhood, preferably parents with children at the school.
2. Restore the ability of teachers to maintain order and discipline in the classroom. Teachers shall be authorized to exercise reasonable corporal punishment in moderation when needed, and not subjected to prosecution, civil liability, or administrative punitive action when written guidelines for such punishment are observed.
3. Reduce class sizes to a level manageable by a single teacher. Classes should contain no more than 20 students under any circumstances, and ideally no more than 10, so that all students can receive sufficient attention from the teacher to learn the curriculum.
4. Teach using the classical education model. By implementing elements of the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) into primary education, students will not only learn specific facts and concepts about a given subject, but will learn how to engage the learning process for themselves in any subject.
5. Emphasize literacy as the primary skill. Children who cannot read cannot study. Children who discover the pleasure of reading will read far beyond the requirements of their schoolwork and, given a steady supply of quality books, will proceed to educate themselves.
Having reviewed these five points, I realize that there is essentially no possibility that they can be implemented in the current public education model in any meaningful way, absent the return of this entire nation to the sensibilities and politics of the 1890s. These five points, however, do work quite nicely in a private or parochial school, and even better in a homeschool. In fact, the first three points are inevitably part of a home education effort.
That is pure BS.
The smaller class size was and is nothing more than a ploy by the libs to make more teacher's jobs available, thus adding to union funds and more control.
Has nothing to do with the ability to teach.
A good teacher can teach a group of kids under an oak tree out in the field, a failed teacher, cannot, regardless of the limits placed on the number of children.