Posted on 07/29/2020 3:31:02 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
School systems can provide what they’re currently offering for well under half of their revenues. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, the discussion about returning to school is fraught, filled with questions about public health, what kids and families need, and how to operate socially distanced schools. Confronted with these challenges, nine of the nation’s 15 largest school systems, and thousands of others, have defaulted to full-time remote learning. At the same time, public-school officials have demanded massive additional financial support, whether or not their schools reopen. Setting aside the reopening debate for the moment, let’s focus on a smaller but still important question: Just what will it actually cost to deliver remote instruction this fall?
After all, the average cost per public school pupil in the U.S. was $13,600 a year in 2016, based on the most recent figures from the National Center for Education Statistics. That’s the cost of a five-day-a-week, 180-day, in-person experience, which is obviously not what families are getting via remote instruction. Indeed, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that, at the end of May, the typical student received 3.8 hours per week of live remote instruction, with 83 percent of schools also providing instructional packets and slightly less than half offering supplemental virtual content (e.g., online videos).
Given that, it’s worth a rough estimate of what this kind of learning experience really costs. Let’s run through the major components:
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Wait...I guess they aren't having school board meetings these days.
How convenient.
This new school year will be a sh*tstorm. Sh*tstorms always benefit the left.
Many rural areas don’t have broadband access.
It will cost next to nothing.
The software is purchased from last ywar.
Minimal building maintenance required.
Actually, there should be massive credits.
We should expect and demand massive layoffs of teachers and administrators. Lower or eliminate property taxes. We do not owe these people a paycheck if they are not teaching and we certainly don’t owe them retirement and healthcare. Teach in school or get in the unemployment line like everyone else.
At a minimum, the older teachers who fear catching the virus should be forced into early retirement.
The younger teachers should have to choose between being in the classroom every day or marching with ANIFA and losing their jobs.
There are plenty of laid off health workers who can teach biology and chemistry, laid off English majors who can teach English, American tech workers whose jobs were taken by foreigners who can teach math, avid readers of history who can teach history, etc.
That depends. Will people buy it on the open market or will the gooberment supply it?
If the latter then multiply by 1,000.
Actually that is not true anymore-as of a couple of years ago, many rural electrical co-ops-like the one out here- provide excellent, reliable broadband service-at a better price and with local customer service-there are also a few private providers, but they are not as reliable or well-priced, but they are local, or close to it-and if there is no alternative, a person can always subscribe to HughesNet or one of the other SAT providers-more expensive, no local customer service, lots of of outtages, but still better than nothing. Every homeschooling parent out here subscribes to some homeschool program’s online resources...
Obama kept using that rural areas-no-broadband for years trying to get a federal mandate-and government control for free rural broadband for the “poor”-it wasn’t true then and it certainly isn’t now-I haven’t known anyone in even the most remote area who didn’t at least have HughesNet in several years...
It won’t cost much for those who homeschool and put some planning effort into it.
If the public school is asking for more then they are ripping you off.
Why it might even be possible to outsource teaching to people in call centers in foreign countries, just like corporate America has been doing for years. Then US teachers could compete against equally educated or more educated teachers from around the world. Why not learn French from someone who speaks it as their native language?
After all, the average cost per public school pupil in the U.S. was $13,600 a year in 2016...
With 20 kids in a class = $272,000...with 30 kids in a class - So Calif schools - that is $408,000. The So Calif teachers I know all average about $120,000 with benefits.
Where the hell does all the other moola go? Custodians, electricity, and building upkeep doesn’t come close to that, especially when you look at 500-600 kids or more.
This whole “education” thing...I mean “indoctrination” is WAY out of control. Talk about them screwing us over!
I read the whole Constitution a few times. Interesting that the words education, school, or teachers never appear. Shouldn’t this be a local issue?
“Actually that is not true anymore-as of a couple of years ago, many rural electrical co-ops-like the one out here- provide excellent, reliable broadband service-at a better price and with local customer service-there are also a few private providers, but they are not as reliable or well-priced, but they are local”
There is a county not 14 miles from my house that broadband or even hotspots are negligible. Heck, the Chesapeake bay is less than 2 miles from my abode and I have 1 bar on the phone and NWS marine broadcast signal strength is less than 1.
I agree with you somewhat, but just last week I was in West and western Virginia and had no service for phone or LTE. I reckon if your close to railbeds you have half a chance at internet and voip options but it certainly isn’t a blanket statement that everybody has access.
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