I agree with this completely, and about smaller classes, as well. But I would also go a step further and say in an ideal teaching implementation, especially in primary school, there wouldn’t really be “standards” as we understand them. Collaborating with students (as opposed to the conventional methods of coercion) and using their own individual interests as the fuel for their learning, is, from my perspective, the clearest path to making school a positive experience for the majority of students.
