California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
I am not from US so don&#x27;t interpret my comment trough US blue vs red or similar lenses.  My observations is that students learn at different speed, the issue with a teacher that is forced to teach a class of 25 students is very obvious, at each step some student will  fall behind, then if he is behind he will have more trouble comprehending the next topic and in the end you get a student that does not know the basic rules of signs when multiplying. I know such a person that failed his national exam, he did not know how to multiply negative integers , but this person had the ambition to get his dream job so he found a tutor and he learned and then he got a good grade. The difference was that you had a tutor with 1 or maybe 2 students at a time and that the student wanted to learn.<p>When I am doing homework with my son or check is lessons I always wonder what is happening with students that parents don&#x27;t have the time or the skill to do math,physics,programming together with the child. Some will hire private tutors but to few.<p>Seems to me that either you get fewer students to a teacher, or have less dense material to work with so the teacher can have the time to check each student and figure-out what exactly is unclear. And you ofcourse you need good teachers,