Yeah but teachers don't have the time to train 30 impatient and still incompetent youngsters to the art of acting in the few hours they get. Without at least a

Yeah but teachers don't have the time to train 30 impatient and still incompetent youngsters to the art of acting in the few hours they get. Without at least a year of practice (and even then...), the results will be atrocious, humiliating even, and the students will be even less convinced. You should not study Shakespeare in school, it needs a lot of things to be appreciated, and hence it's a terrible material given the school constraints.