Class size solution: Home schooling

You recently printed a story on the front page about how public school educators are looking to technology to solve the problems that large class sizes present. As you know, teachers have been complaining about class size forever.

I think that if pressed, the teachers union would put the ideal class size at one teacher for zero students. As it is, they appear to have settled on 15-19 pupils per class, a number supposedly derived from research.

To me, the solution is so obvious it hurts. They are trying to reinvent the wheel. If you want classes that approach the one-on-one ideal, go to home schooling. That is where it all started.

Additionally, the one thing kids get in home schooling that they cannot get in the factory model school is a teacher who is emotionally and biologically invested in the students, that is, a father or a mother, or both, depending upon circumstances. And in cases where older siblings help out, the teacher student ratio in home schooling can be three or four teachers per student.

Add to that grandparents, aunts and uncles, and the teacher ratio can be 10 teachers to one student. They, of course, cost the taxpayers nothing. No huge pension funds exist for the politicians to raid. Also, bathrooms create no political problems regarding "transgenders," because everyone in a household usually uses the same one.

George Kocan

Warrenville