[GOPJ]

It's all fraud ... administrators passing kids who should never pass, graduating kids who can barely read and write...creating a subclass of illiterate non-critical-thinking-capable people without the skills to hold jobs

Many years back I'd go thrift store shopping with a teacher who would buy blankets, pens, pencils, sweaters and jackets for her students (out of her own money). Her room was cold and many of her students were poor. On top of that various parents would participate in bake sales, car washes and other 'fund raising' efforts to get money for small school projects.

It was nuts.

You'd think the American school system was a poor charity in a third world country...rather than an educational system that spends MORE per pupil than any country on the face of the earth.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Burn it down.

[i_robot73]

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You’d think the American school system was a poor charity in a third world country...rather than an educational system that spends MORE per pupil than any country on the face of the earth.
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That is to presume said monies were spent ON the students’ education. No such thing will/can occur when going *through* govt.

Return it to the service based\pay-per-use it is. Rip out all property taxes and when mom\dad\guardian must write the check\mo, you’re damn tooting they’ll start caring about quality\poor attendance\expulsion\etc.