Baltimore public schools spend more than $15,000 per student per year, but schools are freezing

Wordpress ^ | January 4, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

Baltimore public schools spend more than $15,000 per student per year, but Democrats Bill Ferguson and Zeke Cohen say they can’t afford to heat the classrooms in January

NPR just published this article about how students at Baltimore’s public schools are freezing because the classrooms do not have any heat.

One student said she couldn’t feel her feet.

Another student said he was wearing four shirts, two hoodies, and a jacket.

The same article also says that Democratic State Senator Bill Ferguson and Democratic City Councilman Zeke Cohen both said that the city’s public schools did not have enough money.

But like all people who claim that public schools do not have enough money, neither one of them actually said how much they spent per student per year.

So I looked it up at wikipedia.

The Baltimore public schools have an annual budget of $1.32 billion, and a student population of 84,730.

That works out to $15,578 per student per year.

So, the Baltimore public schools actually have plenty of money.

It’s just that the government bureaucrats who run the schools, have chosen not to provide heat for the students.

I wonder what would happen if Baltimore shut down its public schools, and gave parents a $15,578 voucher for each student each year.

My guess is that the private schools that accepted those vouchers would be properly heated.

[Steely Tom]

I suppose it would be poor form to ask “where da money go?”

[A strike]

Sad, or Bad, I dunno ...

[stanne]

We stayed in Annapolis en route to Texas from Germany when hub retired from USAF.

We’d considered living in Maryland

The main street in Annapolis, leading to the capitol bldg, is fabulous. Lily oulizyshops, sushi bars and yachting gear stores. On that street is a four story building with shiny brass lettering for its title

Maryland Department of Education

I saw that and said uh uh Bubbie, we are not putting our kids into a school system that treats its administrators a way better than it treats its students. And they are NOT going to support our being open to home schooling. No.

we we’re out of there

But I could see there was something way wrong with sea Maryland. T

[cableguymn]

didn’t the mayor also spend 100K busing kids to protest donald trump?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a3DZsO36cA

[pepsionice]

It is a fact...the city used it’s budget (not the school budget) to cover sixty buses going to DC for the anti-gun rally back in early spring 2018. General estimate was $100k in the month prior when talking about this.