Even in the regular classes, 29 out of 30 students will require no effort from the teacher. Marking their papers takes time, but this is not the issue. The majority of a teacher's time is spent on particular problem students who are disruptive, cheat, get violent, etc. These, actually, are not the ones in the dumb classes. They aren't smart enough to cheat, and they're usually all disruptive, so they're only disrupting each other. But when one tries to take a regular class, they're disrupting kids who actually give a shit, so they expect you to do something about it. And the ones that do take the regular classes seem to want their diploma, so they cheat. Most of the time, the implication from admin is that we should overlook cheating unless it's absurdly blatant. But since things like turnitin (online plagiarism finder) are so common, most schools are obligated to use them. But if a student gets got cheating, do they get expelled? Do they get a zero? Of course not. They get to do the assignment again. On my internship, that black lady teacher had a student who tried to plagiarize a poem by Tupac or something, where the poem literally talks about who he is, openly saying "My name is Tupac Shakur" or whatever. He handed it in, along with the rest of "his" work on the last day of the semester, after exams. Students weren't even supposed to be at school anymore. It was literally a day just for teachers to mark their last papers and submit report cards. The teacher gave him a zero, obviously. This motherfucker had the nerve to go to the vice principal and complain about the teacher. The student was going to fail the course, since he was getting a bunch of zeros for plagiarism and work that he simply didn't submit. It was the last day of the semester, and there was no time to resubmit. The vice principal took him to his office and helped him do all the assignments, telling the teacher she would receive them by the end of the day and would have to mark them. She got all of her work done early, but was obligated to stay until the bell rang. Luckily, the building was large and had an odd layout where, from our nerd staff room on an upper floor, we could see the main hallway and usually get a view of if someone was heading for the stairs. But there was an alternate path they could theoretically take, so it was risky. The plan was to literally just try to keep a good lookout and avoid the student and all administrators (as well as untrusted, maybe narc, teachers) until the end of the day. I played lookout around the corner of that second stairwell, and like two minutes before the bell was going to ring, saw the student and the vice principal heading down the hallway with a stack of papers. I gave the teacher the signal and she took the fire exit out of the building. We found out weeks earlier that the fire exit's alarm wasn't hooked up or something. Serious code violation, but we didn't tell anyone because it was the closest door to our "staff room" and very convenient. The vice principal saw the room the teacher was usually in was empty. I said she must have gone to the washroom or something. The bell rang like a minute later, and I left as the vice principal explained to the student that he was fucked.
I should mention that the teacher in that story was also the union rep, which is the only reason they didn't screw with her even harder. They still gave her the dumb classes and made her the go-to substitute for the literal full retard "classes" though. (Teachers have one free period per day, but if a sub is needed, and you're on your free period, you can be called to be that sub. They would always pick her to sub for the "class" of literal drooling brain dead cases).
The next semester, he was in her class again. This single student took up the vast majority of her time. Like 90%. She had maybe 90 to 100 students, but this single one is where nearly all of her time went. Time is money. This is what they were paying her for. 90% of her salary was for one student. Only 10% was for the rest of the students, the students who actually tried, or at least weren't assholes. All the taxpayer money that goes toward the school system, practically none is spent on the regular kids, or the kids who are worth it. The vast majority of the staff's effort, and thus what they're being paid for, goes toward this tiny minority of students. When you pay taxes and send your kids to school, your taxes aren't going to your kids, they're going to the students who actively make your kids have a worse time in school. If we just let them go away and stop ruining things for everyone else, all the other students would be able to learn better, all the teachers would be able to teach better, and all the taxpayers could save a hell of a lot of money.
Speaking of wastes of money, keep in mind the amount spent on special ed. Many of them have a dedicated handler at all times. A tard wrangler there for no other purpose than to make sure that these violent psychopaths don't attack children that are actually trying to learn. Being a tard wrangler is statistically a very dangerous job. When I was in college, I somehow managed to get a job as an "emergency substitute" tard wrangler. Only on call if all the subs with actual qualifications were out. So many were injured so often that they ran out of subs all the time and I actually got pretty steady work.
But now think of all that money wasted on special ed, then consider how many students given "special education" and the absurd costs that come with it aren't actually retarded, but are just assholes who deliberately get themselves diagnoses for made up bullshit like "anxiety" just so they can't get in trouble for anything they do. Nigger, everyone gets anxiety. It's not a disease. But these assholes who do nothing but disrupt are obviously the least anxious people who ever lived. Or maybe they get a diagnosis for "oppositional defiance disorder," which just means they're assholes. But the majority of money that goes into the school system is spent on precisely this type of student. None of this isn't to say that there aren't also the other type, who get misdiagnosed against their will, but they aren't the problem. These students want diagnoses.
One time, on a different internship (my school had two, but one was only for two weeks), it came time for my class's first test. Literally 14/15 boys in the class (and a significant portion of the girls, but not nearly as many) all said "I don't need to take the test! I have a disability!" They all got excepted from the test. They were all very proud to show off their "disability."
Things were moving online even before last year, and I'm very thankful for that. This year has given me a lot of experience working online, which other teachers don't want to do, so I'm hoping that I'll just be able to work from home forever. Then if I ever manage to have my own kids, I can homeschool them. Because under no circumstances would I ever send my kid to school. Public or private, I don't care. To get accredited, they have to be awful, and the pool of licensed teachers they have to choose from is awful.