I think the point is - imagine a school day where every child sat a listened to the lesson you took hours to prepare. Imagine how well children would benefit.
Now throw in the mix children with such poor home lives, they don’t know how to behave, throw chairs, attack other children, swear about fight, and how many staff / time they take to deal with.
I was a TA and the amount of classes I had to cover as a teach dealt with an incident, phoned parents, had parent meetings, wrote forms, etc etc - now I was quite good cover, but I’m not a teacher. Teachers go off with stress, guess who’s covering again?
Parents complain, more time in meetings away from the class, preparing reports, we’ve had police come in for witness statements, we’ve had to clear whole class room because some kid is kicking off and throwing things, there’s a lack of special school or PRU places, they only take the worst ones.
Parents come in blaming XYZ and won’t accept help, won’t allow their kids to attend anger management coarse and the like - they think it doesn’t apply to their child.
Now there are some fantastic resilient kids out there who want to learn, who take full advantage, who’s parents have given them a leg up - read to them, played with them, engaged, been there as a friend and parent - these kids will always do well as they have a parent to lean on.
We had on kid who’s mother wanted the help and the father who didn’t - we need both parents to agree, so you can imagine parents at war -