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by MontyCarloHall 1807 days ago
Ah, I get your point now. In my hypothetical example, you could still have those 2000 students enrolled with only the 50 good teachers. The overall STR would still be 2:1, but most of the teachers would have no students, so the effective STR would be 40:1.

The main thing distinguishing online education is the ability for students to all flock to the good teachers and completely abandon the crappy ones.