Posted on 08/10/2016 9:51:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
In Philadelphia, where the Democratic Party held its national convention, the public schools spent a total of $18,241 per student in the 2011-2012 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
In Detroit, where Donald Trump gave a speech on his economic policies this week, the public schools spent a total of $18,361 per student that year.
In Washington, D.C., where the federal government makes its home, it was $23,980.
What did these schools produce while spending more than $18,000 per student? Not well-educated children. […]
(I)n the 2011-2012 school year, according to the Digest of Educational Statistics, the average tuition at a Catholic elementary school was $5,330; the average tuition at a Catholic secondary school was $9,790, and the average tuition at a Catholic school that combined elementary and secondary schools was $10,230. That is less than $12,010 that public elementary and secondary schools spent per student that year. …
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I was homeschooled. Sure didn’t cost my folks $18000 a year. Probably not even $180 a year!
Well, they are well indoctrinated into hating whitey
That was goal, education was a side effect, if a few got educated and made something of themselves, fine, but that wasn’t the purpose.
We send our daughter to a small private Christian school where she gets an education far superior to a public school at far less than the cost the taxpayers pay for public schools.
Reading, writing and arithmetic out the window. Now it’s how to be good little Marxists and Social Justice Warriors- job well done!
Simple reason....The US Government has taken over; the teachers willingly teach Socialism; The parents are already Socialists.........American children today are rarely taught anything but socialist theory, new math a-la Common Core...confusing at best; precious little education that actually prepares the students to put bread on the table. Government will take care of them......government can’t take care of its self, just self feeds the beast while citizens, very shortly, maybe 10-15 years forage for food.....the rest is history!
When that’s multiplied to reflect each classroom, it’s over $500,000 ... over half a million dollars every year.
Gee, if we gave every family an $18k tax credit per child, they could afford either private schools or having one parent stay home to homeschool. The taxpayers would be better off, the kids would be better educated, and the only losers would be government bureaucrats.
Any parent who sends their kid to a public school is a willing participant in a covenant of unspeakable death and hell.
If you can’t afford to educate your kids you can’t afford to have them.
Millstone around your neck.
If “afford” encompasses home schooling, is that OK?
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