better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers Totally, but a teacher in charge of usually 30 children, for probably 8 hours a day, still isn't g

better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers Totally, but a teacher in charge of usually 30 children, for probably 8 hours a day, still isn't going work miracles. Divide your attention across thirty energetic people in 8 hours. You'll still feel spread thin. When elementary school gives way to high school, this ratio of time per teacher, per student becomes even more distributed. Possibly up to 8 classes of 30 students per teacher, each class lasting an maybe an hour. If you were to parcel out direct attention, such that each teacher spent an equal amount of time with each student, across the entire day, every student would get 2 minutes from each of their 8 teachers, in such a scenario. Maybe that's a 2 minute chess game, or 2 minutes in the confessional. Obviously lectures don't actually work that way, but you see the point I'm driving at. Parents with 4 kids feel stressed out by their own kids. 4 kids is a large family. Teachers probably feel the least stressed when there are no kids, or perhaps when only their well-behaved favorite students are present.