[ghiculescu]

This seems like a very idealistic take on how teachers spend their day.

Do most programmers spend years studying programming practice and always read the research on best practices? (I don’t.)

[vonzepp]

You do however spend probably 8 hrs working on it, read hackernews on latest tech, probably better than you were 5 years ago. Now imagine your marketing department saying they went to a computer summer camp once in the 90s and therefore think you should rewrite the tech stack in perl.

[ghiculescu]

I think the more appropriate metaphor would be: imagine your company’s founder asking you to produce more output in the same time.

It’s not surprising parents will expect more outcomes from the time their kids spend at school, than the teachers delivering the teaching will.