The Japanese spend 1/2 to 1/4 what we do for a high school education.
Their high school students out score our college graduates.
Throwing money at the problem has little effect on the outcome.
Maybe governor Abbot and lt governor Patrick (Texas) should figure this out?
Here’s a little thought experiment. What would happen if you were to swap the student body of one of those Asbury Park schools with that of a typical Japanese school? Would the Japanese kids’ grade-level reading proficiency sink to 11%? Would the Asbury Park kids begin turning up at math-a-lons? Yeah. Those poor Japanese teachers would begin committing hara kiri after a week or two.
It’s the parents. Without actively involved parents, it doesnt matter what your school spends.
It would probably be worth the effort to investigate the best procedures the Japanese use in education so those techniques and procedures could be implemented here.
Much like learning from the Israelis on how to become highly efficient in airport security, instead of doing it TSA style.
Peach
Abbott should get the Legislature to limit our school property taxes. Every year they go up 10%. Not many people’s salary goes up that much if at all.
The per student cost in our district is 15K which is too much. We don’t need all those high dollar administrators or so many aides. When I was in school, our teachers had 35-40 students with no aides. Today’s teachers only have 15 students and have to have 1-2 aides plus a security official to shadow the weirdo kid all day.
In Japan, they want their country to succeed.