[c-b 1]

The reason that you and I pay so much for "public education" is that we are not only paying for our own kids, but for all those kids who's parents pay NO no taxes at all.

That is only part of the cost. Waste, corruption, and unneeded, overpaid administrators also add greatly to the cost.

[doxteve]

"That is only part of the cost. Waste, corruption, and unneeded, overpaid administrators also add greatly to the cost."

In the State of Washington around 50% of all taxes collected go into the sinkhole of public education. 50% of all those hundreds of millions still isn't enough.

The greatest political move the NEA made here did was to enact a new amendment in our state contstituion that said it was the state's duty to educate our kids. This is embedding and reinforcing the guarantee that probably more than 50% of our state budget is destined to follow in the future.

[Mad Dawgg]

"That is only part of the cost. Waste, corruption, and unneeded, overpaid administrators also add greatly to the cost."

Oh Man, did you ever poke a sore spot. A few years back we had three Superintendents on the local school payroll because of some screwed up regulations about health and retirement. Each was receiving over 100k a year salary two did nothing at all for this money. This went on for over five years.

To some this may sound like a drop in the bucket but we live in a town of only 6350 people. Our Schools have been on academic emergency for over 4 years and now they tell us they need even more money after soaking us for new schools.

I saw close them if they cannot get their scores up.