Posted on 10/13/2019 2:52:31 PM PDT by Morgana
CLARKSBURG — The home-schooled student population in Harrison County has increased by hundreds over the last eight to 10 years, according to officials.
Because of all those students leaving the school system to be taught at home leaves, Harrison County has received less in state aid formula funding each year.
On Oct. 1, when the county submitted its enrollment total to the state Department of Education, the number of home-schooled children had reached 582, according to Harrison Schools Attendance Director Jim Kirby.
Over his 15 years as attendance director, Kirby said he’s seen the number of home-schooled students continue to rise. When he first started working in the county, the number of homeschooled children was approximately 180 to 200 and stayed fairly steady throughout the year, he said.
“As time has progressed, the number of homeschoolers across the state have skyrocketed,” Kirby said. “We have doubled or tripled our numbers, and after speaking with other attendance directors around the state, they are concerned with their county numbers increasing as well.”
Kirby said the increase in homeschool students has a direct effect on the services that school systems can provide their school system as their state aid formula decreases based on the number of students enrolled.
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For public schools, students are simply revenue generating tools.
One day at a time. My youngest child is 7, so we have many more years to go, unless I’m hit by a bus and my heirs send her to boarding school! (She might like it, especially if it had horses.)
It sounds as though your current tax rates in Idaho are modest. Why couldn’t the newcomers organize themselves and start private schools? Facilities costs would be much lower than where they came from, and a new school wouldn’t start off with the burden of retiree pensions and health insurance costs, so it would get more bang for the up-front buck.
The administrators and union thugs learn to code.
500 out of how many??
After 12 years of schooling and 120k spent, the kids are barely qualified to work at McDonalds. So then they go off to college for 120k and then they are qualified to do not much of anything but they have a piece of paper so they can now make 30k a year.
I lived in one of the lousier school districts in the state. Acquaintances were fed up and moved to the state’s Best district.
Saw them about two years later, and they said it wasnt much different.
As I mentioned above, retiree benefits are a huge issue.
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So cut the retirement bennies.
I think all the Government retirement bennies should be poured into SS. All the funds and let them have what everyone else has. Same bennies.
$10,000 per kid seems to be the going rate. Baltimore spends $18,000 per kid and gets the worst results in the nation.
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That spending mostly goes to teacher retirement bennies and special needs kids.
Regular kids? Not so much.
Sounds like one whole school to close.
The retiree benefits could be changed by state legislatures, in most cases. However, they don’t have the motivation to do so. Schools’ unions have a lot more political clout than taxpayers, even if the taxpayers realized where their “education” money was going.
In a vacuum, I like your idea about throwing it all into Social Security, but I wouldn’t want the Federal government to have that kind of power over retirement arrangements of other entities. If they can grab school employees’ pensions, they can grab your 401(k).
I understand what you are saying, although I think of 401Ks and others as being private monies and government retirements and bennies being public monies.
A pipe dream I know, and while they are at it, no more government employee unions either!!
I understand what you are saying, although I think of 401Ks and others as being private monies and government retirements and bennies being public monies.
A pipe dream I know, and while they are at it, no more government employee unions either!!
It’s all about the attendance. Attendance is from whence the money flows. I worked on school student information systems back in the day. That and tracking special students cuz they require lots of extra time and documentation but can be lucrative.
My children were adopted from overseas. When I notified my highly ranked Northern VA school district that I was pulling them to homeschool (and this was 10+ years ago) they begged me to keep them in because they got more money because they were considered ESL immigrants.
That’s a good point, that whatever is in government employee pension funds, including employee contributions, originated with the taxpayer.
I think “No government employee unions,” is the only way to address it, because one you have unionized public employees, there’s no way to prevent their working with elected officials to fleece the taxpayers.
“It costs almost $2 million to teach a few hundred kids?”
A clear example of why the current public school education model is becoming untenable.
I think they are building for the anticipated growth of enrollment — trying to get ahead of it. I don’t know how Impacted their schools are. Maybe they’ll build all those subdivisions and people stop arriving.
I drive out on the Rathdrum Prairie west do here every week or two and I swear they are bulldozing more farm acreage. It’s sad to see. I’ve been coming here to visit my grandparents since 1967 — what a lot of change.
What you say is true. My sister teaches middle school math in inner city Baltimore. At the end of a full year of math education, many of them cannot grasp the concept of “one-half.”
I see the point, but it makes more sense to me to start off the “community” with private education. That way, both current and future residents can make choices for their children at their own expense.
The Peoples' Commissar of Education Indoctrination has less power.
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