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>Try doing that as a teacher with a classroom of 30+ students.

I believe that OP is saying that's exactly the problem.

What percentage of the population are in K-12 any given time -- 15%? 20%? To have 1-1 tuition for all of them, we'd have to have at least that many adults also in education.

Depends on the country.

In the US it's ~10% of the population. Completely doable, especially since the participation rate in the economy is still lower than at any point in the last 50 years (minus covid). If that seems to hard I guess we can increase class sizes by 100% and have 2 on 1 education.

I'm sure it's a sliding scale type thing. 24 students is slightly better than 25, and our numbers have slowly been increasing for a long time.

It'll be quite possible in a few years with robots; there won't be any more need for shoving 20-30 kids together in a classroom.

One of the main points of the top level comments is that students seek connections with people, not content. We don't know yet whether they will seek connections with robots.

Yeah, they’ll figure out how to feed the robot whatever will get the robot to shut up, and then go do things teenagers do when they have no adult supervision. Great model lol.

So you go from 1:20 to 0:20?

it also doesn't work for a single student case if you only start talking to them after they are already highly already at a point where you can say they have developed a sever attention deficit due to addictive dopamine loops

like you know the station most teachers are exposed to as the problem can already have takes deep root before the child goes to school

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