Posted on 02/25/2013 2:35:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
High school dropouts are costing some $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue every year, education advocates said in a report released Monday.
If states were to increase their graduation rates, state and federal lawmakers could be plugging their budgets with workers’ taxes instead of furloughing teachers, closing drivers-license offices and cutting unemployment benefits. While advocates tend to focus on the moral argument that all children deserve a quality education, they could just as easily look at budgets’ bottom lines. …
Lawmakers in state capitols are making tough choices about whether to raise taxes to keep classroom lights on or to sell off state agencies to provide health care to seniors. Federal officials, meanwhile, are looking at some $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that are set to take hold at the end of the week. …
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Harvard Law School graduates cost economy trillions.
Thanks for the corollary.
water down those standards some more!
I disagree. Even if every American had a college degree, there will always be a lower class. There will always be unemployment, there will always be fast food burger flippers, janitors, Wal-Mart helpers etc. High School dropouts don’t cost the economy anything, they fill the above roles.
Too often employers require education degrees for jobs they didn’t used to, even though base skills haven’t really changed.
This costs the economy billions, because it keeps people out of the workforce for years more than what is really needed.
It’s easy to see how those who don’t graduate cost us serious $$$...but I see no mention made of graduates who can’t read their diplomas.
If the student is just wasting space in a classroom, they’re wasting taxpayer dollars as well. Personally I think the K thru 12 model is an outdated failure.
I dropped out in my junior year, took my GED a few months later and “graduated” nearly a full year before my classmates. I was already running a department in a local factory and hired a couple of my classmates when they graduated.
They wouldn’t cost us anything if the government wouldn’t give them freebies. If you quit high school, fine...no welfare, no food stamps, no cheap housing, etc. I also think everyone should start off with a certain amount of government money...say 10K and once you go through that, your done for life. If we had started this 40 years ago, we would have zero problems.
How many are illegal aliens?
Harvard Law School graduates cost economy trillions.
At least they eventually contibute to society...not like the high school dregs.
I don’t see a problem, the Marxist proletariat output of the government schools has never been better.
This is sloppy logic. The low level jobs happen to be populated by high school dropouts, but they are not caused by high school drop outs. Similarly, high school graduates do not for the most part create higher paying jobs that cause more tax revenue, they just happen to get them more often. In this economy, unemployment is high at all levels, and the lower level jobs are being occupied more and more by higher educated people.
The gov’t is going broke with the citizen as tax slave model of ruling.
Yep, we all need compost.
Instead of requiring degrees companies used to be able to give $50 aptitude/IQ tests. Then it became legal to sue them for discrimination when favored minorities did not score as high as whites or asians.
Just give out free diplomas. Problem solved.
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