Just read recently that DC schools spend a total of $26,000 per pupil!! Twenty-six freaking thousand dollars per student!! I spend about $1000 per pupil at our home school.
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I would like to know how much is spent on regular education and then on special education services.
I’d like to know how much those have grown over the years.
Then you could also compare the results to private schools who do not need to provide special education services.
I’d also like to know how much is spent on special education based on different services and on different disabilities. Are we really getting a good bang for the buck on those services? My daughter received special ed services. I think they spent more on administering it than on actually providing the services. I do think the occupational therapy helped her a lot. I think the district should have contracted out the speech therapy to a private therapist. We got a lot more bang for our buck (time wise) with private therapy.
In 1970 the average wage was $6186, in 2009 it was 40,712. A 6x increase, where school costs only increased 3x. SSA source of data
I'm not saying we are getting sufficient education for our money. But to show the costs disparity over 30 years without any frame of reference is misleading.
Look what has happened to families in the last 40 years. I think that’s the problem. No amount of money can make up for kids who are unready for school because of family problems.