The governor’s budget includes $17.7 million in recurring spending and a one-time cost of $21.2 million for “hand-held diagnostic devices” for teachers in grades K-3 and grade 5 that will give “immediate student-specific feedback regarding student skills mastery and allows teachers to immediately address areas of need for individual students.” It’s on page 52 of the governor’s budget, because I know you don’t believe me.
So we’re spend $39 million to train teachers how to use tricorders when they apparently can’t remember which children are need help in math. Maybe the devices scan the face so the teacher doesn’t even have to remember who the child is.
At what point do we just drop the teacher altogether?
