Posted on 08/13/2018 12:17:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why? Government abuse of tax dollars.
Federal government control.
I’m sure looking at your first graph that New York school tax payers and legislators need additional education.
brainwashing doesn’t come cheap.
Because everything government controls always costs more and delivers less than promised. Government can’t manage a 2-car funeral, let alone education or health care. The legitimate purpose of government is to protect citizens from threats abroad and crime at home, and it does a pretty poor job even at those basic functions.
Short Answer: Unions throwing money down ratholes.
An independent school in London:
http://www.faradayschool.co.uk/Admissions/Fees/
http://www.faradayschool.co.uk/Term-Dates/
Three terms a year at about $5,000/term comes to about $15,000/year.
1. Waste. The cost of “administration’ massively outweighs the cost of education. Most of this ‘administration’ is the product empire building on the part of the education bureaucracy.
2. Screwed up priorities. Educations spend massively on those benefit the least and not enough on those who would benefit the most. “No child gets ahead.”
3. BS. Education wastes enormous sums on fashionable looney-toons education fads, instead of going after the basics - mathematics, literacy, history, and, yes, phys-ed and culture as well.
Excellent article.
We pay way too much to educate children. It should be half or less of what we pay.
Much of the expense is simple babysiting.
A very large amount is for the hyper-expensive school buildings (mostly for silly regulations).
A significant amount gets funneled to leftist political organizations.
Because we’re so bad at it.
“you had 30 students ready to enroll on the first day of classes. And say you were given $14,000 per student, so you’d have $420,000 to play around with. You could go for broke and pay a highly qualified teacher a $100,000 salary”
An average class size might be around 16 students nowadays. This requires more teachers and generates more union dues.
There’ll be no gold star for you today.
Did you go to school in the 1960’s?
There are two factors that can be found from the first graph.
If a state has a high cost of living, K-12 education will tend to be more expensive.
If a state spends a lot, neighboring states will have to spend more. Pennsylvania has many low cost areas, but it needs to spend a lot to keep up with New York State.
Interesting. Tiny school, only 92 students for eight years of students.
Kind of like a modern one-room school in London. They must have tiny classes.
Of course top level urban centers tend to be more expensive.
Shit like this could account for much of it.
FED UP PROFESSOR #19
https://youtu.be/2NMVVfJmX9o
Because these cultural Marxist controlled places churn out hundreds of thousands of NEW brain-washed “yutes” every year,
we’d better get a handle on THIS PROBLEM or everything else we do is akin to REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC!
(I can almost hear the orchestra playing “Nearer My God to Thee”.)
What then when THEY vastly outnumber those of us who remember the Founders’ sacrifices and warnings?
FED UP PROFESSOR #18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIP_UdAw_o
Because these cultural Marxist controlled places churn out hundreds of thousands of NEW brain-washed “yutes” every year,
we’d better get a handle on THIS PROBLEM or everything else we do is akin to REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC!
(I can almost hear the orchestra playing “Nearer My God to Thee”.)
What then when THEY vastly outnumber those of us who remember the Founders’ sacrifices and warnings?
“hyper-expensive school buildings”
In my Florida region, some very handsome schools were built in the 1920’s.
For those with young children or grandkids.
Number one, talk to your child constantly. Talk to them like an adult, without vulgarities, just keep talking to them.
Number two, ask them “Why” before or when they start asking “why”. Why, “Why are there guardrails on the side of the road” everything they see, ask them “Why do they think things, physical things, are they way they are”, and explain it to them.
Number three, talk to them some more.
The nea?
Another factor may be that places like New Jersey and New York have some small but affluent areas and school districts.
In order to have student spending equality, education statewide is made costly.
Because Scarsdale and Montclair can spend big bucks, every district in their states must spend big bucks.
Why? Arizona is at the bottom of the chart. California is more than half way up the chart, and it is next door.
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