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When I think about where that thought is going, I come up
with the following scenario, which is probably part farce
and part fact ... but I honestly don't know which part is
which, so please bear with me. A Modest Proposal (tm):
The aforementioned teachers could be replaced by (or
recertified as) CARPs i.e. Classroom Administrators /
Readers / Projectionists. Each day the CARP walks into
class and takes attendance, then reads a few pages from
the excellent text, then shows a few excellent video clips.
Every so often the CARP administers a quiz. The CARP
spends several hours per day filling out federally-mandated
paperwork.
The CARP doesn't have enough subject-matter expertise to
answer nontrivial questions from students, nor enough
to perform demonstrations that work.
Why do we need more than a handful of real teachers when
we have plenty of CARPs?
This proposal is not entirely fanciful.