Only-teacher primary school. What do you think about this?
After many years of successfully working primary school with many different teachers per class, the actual Italian government is reintroducing the old "only-teacher". Personally I think we'll lose all the advantages of different points of view in teaching, which are very important especially at primary school where children mostly learn how to live and deal with people. What are your opinions? How is primary school in your countries? [Of course the main reason of this change is the government doesn't have money enough to pay many teachers; but they don't say so...]

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My opinion is that the old "only-teacher" style has many benefits. In primary schools it seems to me more necessary that the young pupils develop an admiration and an ideal of a human character as a 'whole'. 
That means that in the personality of their teacher they shall be able to see a human who's knowledge is not centered in a 'speciality' but instead has a relative knowledge of science, literature, music and all the knowledge which a human may easily achieve through education.

Also important is the emotional bond of the young pupils with their teacher, a necessity which is can not be provided by several experts instead; trust develops under a length of exposure to somebody.
 A teacher shall not be 'perfect' but instead 'good enough', and pupils shall understand that.

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