This is necessarily the case given that a teacher having to divide their attention between twenty students and the current priority structure of our schools. B

This is necessarily the case given that a teacher having to divide their attention between twenty students and the current priority structure of our schools. But is it? Don't we all remember that "one teacher" who seemed to give us that little extra attention or push when we needed it the most? Good teachers (at least my good ones) all seem to understand the attention-tool intuitively, but it just became glaringly obvious to me raising my three children and seeing young children behave badly to obviously get their parents attention, and many parents obliging them without thinking. The rather odd part, for me, was, when mentioning this to parents in social groups, I was often looked at like I was nuts...like the idea of bothering a well-behaving kids with attention was beyond the realm of reason.