Myth: Schools Need More Money (John Stossel)

Creator's Syndicate ^ | January 18, 2006 | John Stossel

[chaos_5]

At least we both agree on at least one point. Something must be done about the atrocity we call public education, and more money is not the answer.

[polymuser]

A voucher-less, market-driven solution is OK, too, but the entire fund sourcing scheme will have to change in most states.

In my state, property taxes, a portion of sales tax and some lottery profits fund public education. How to change that so a family in a rental unit can benefit from a change equally with a home-owning family receiving a property tax reduction is a tough one. Vouchers would keep the funding stream and per pupil funding amount in place. What changes then is only what can be accepted as a 'school'.

The neoMarxists are powerfully concerned about controlling education -- it's key to their success. For them, religion and religious schools are anathema.

[Thoeting]

Too bad Stossel neglected to mention that about 1/2 of DC charter schools perform worse than the public schools.

But that would have gotten in the way of a good story I guess.

[Tribune7]

America spends more on schooling than the vast majority of countries that outscore us on the international tests. But the bureaucrats still blame school failure on lack of funds, and demand more money.

Bump

[FreeKeys]

Yet another addition to this ongoing series of articles is here: School Competition Remains "Unproven" (sarcasm)

[Old Professer]

My cousin's husband had a 23 foot daycruiser boat; it had a top speed of almost 50 mph but that wasn't fast enough to suit him.

So off he went in search of more speed; three engines and as many racing engine builders later it was finally impressed upon him by someone he believed more than me that his problem wasn't money and horsepower, it was hull displacement, drag and the consequent inertia.

He now has a 16 foot ski boat with a 460 Ford and twin dual pumper 780 Holleys, pops his fat little butt out of the water like a cork.