THE TWO TEACHER SOLUTION
I firmly believe that unless we put two teachers in every elementary classroom we will never get the achievement results that people want. Having only one teacher in a classroom of thirty or thirty-five students is a recipe for disaster. It’s possible for a teacher to succeed with fifteen or fewer students in a room, but not the usual thirty or so. I don’t think any elementary school teacher with a classroom of thirty kids would honestly say that every child in the room is reaching their full potential.
It’s interesting that a high school basketball team of twelve kids usually has one full-time coach and as many as two to four assistants depending on the school. It would be very difficult for one coach to get twelve players to reach their full potential, and yet we expect one elementary school teacher to succeed with thirty kids.
I have no idea how we are going to come up with the money to place two teachers in most classrooms, but until
