[rob62521]

You have brought up some valid points on stuffing children into a classroom and not giving them all kinds of experiences. You are their first teacher.

However, unless you want to pay a lot more for public education, there are few other ways to teach large groups of students. Public Schools have to educate those they are given and that means the smart, the slow learner, the children with major learning disabilities, the disabled, the poor, the wealthy, etc. Many districts have cut out field trips of most sorts because of the expense -- that including liability insurance. Most classrooms have difficulty finding parents to volunteer to go on these trips, if there are parents who volunteer, they are usually the ones who provide wonderful experiences for their children to begin with.