Posted on 08/13/2018 12:17:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Government interference. Plus, those who aren’t decent teachers get their principal and superintendent papers and get out of the class-room ASAP. Then, they proceed to fail at that as well.
I live in Florida and school districts are by county.
This means the school districts are large and fixed administrative expenses can be spread out over large numbers of students to keep costs down.
Where I live school districts are small, and jealously guard their turf.
Some spend money like drunken sailors, often on lavish athletic facilities. Property taxes in those districts are typically 9000+ per year. Sometimes they adjoin districts that don’t have two pots to rub together.
One district does not provide any student busing because state law would require them to also provide transportation for Catholic school students. They’d rather make everyone drive their kids than help a Catholic school.
OPM...other people’s money being spent by academicians...
There’s a lot of desert between Riverside, CA and Phoenix, AZ.
If you live in the Poconos and are a teacher, you might commute to New Jersey or New York State to get an extra $20K/year. So Pocono school districts have to pay more. And Scranton has to pay more. And so does Hazleton. And so does Harrisburg.
Riverside is just too far away from Phoenix for a tolerable commute.
“Some spend money like drunken sailors, often on lavish athletic facilities.”
Think of what Texas could educate students for without the football stadiums.
There is no limit on the number of teachers that can live in the Poconos. Both New York and Pennsylvania teachers could live there.
Why do people pay their enemies to teach their kids—never did get that...
Why does the Pentagon pay $400 for a toilet seat?
Because of bad, post-17th Amendment ratification trade deals for the last 70+ years, working parents are probably too tired at the end of the day to concern themselves with what alleged bribed school administrators are paying for school supplies.
Next question...
To be fair homeschooling is only vastly cheaper if you don’t count what the teacher (mom) would make if she had a 9-5 job. This can very greatly but lets say (based on skills and education) This is from 30 to 100k. That means if you have between 1 and 4 kids your actual costs are between 7.5k per kid and 100k per kid. That is a pretty wide range.
But still, only counting the cost of books for homeschoolers isn’t exactly fair.
Yes we homeschool and with ‘lost wages’ it costs us way more per kid than this article claims.
Because it takes a lot of money and time for propaganda to get permanently established in the young brain.
“Why does the Pentagon pay $400 for a toilet seat?”
With the toilet seat you get comprehensive documentation that it will do its designed function (and if it is going on a plane that documentation is not cheap). Public schools don’t offer nearly the same guarantees.
Unions, in both direct costs and the costs of poor pedagogy, bureaucracy, and the special ed industrial complex are the three big costs.
there is one thing that is not being discussed here.
In the days gone by, regular kids went to regular school.
Bad and hard to handle kids went to training school and boarded.
Or they dropped out and went to work.
Mentally and physically handicapped kids went to special schools or lived in centers for their disabilities.
“Smaller class sizes” translates into “fewer students per teacher”, which correlates to “more teachers per student”.
And, of course, with more teachers, they’ll want more Deputy Junior Assistant Vice-Principals, which leads to more Junior Assistant Vice-Principals, which leads to more Assistant Vice-Principals, and so on...
A better question would be “Why does it cost SO MUCH to NOT educate a child in America?” To say that we are educating anyone via our educational system is a stretch.
Oh, so this wan't anything but shameless showboating by leebron. Figures...
IOW, more than $1500 less than Utah which runs the most efficient public school system in the nation.
Why do you suppose that it?
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