[Aevery_Freeman]

900-lb Gorilla in the Room Alert!

It's the behavior, stupid.

I sub in several districts (and refuse others). The common thread is student behavior. As long as students are rewarded for bad behavior and rewarding for the teacher unions (more, higher paid staff) costs will be incredibly high.

I hope that I can also point out that not all "communities" value education equally.

[Kenton]

Wow. Looking at these numbers, this seems as simple to understand as black and white...

[meyer]

“If a kid is having reading problems, he immediately goes into a special reading program with three or five kids to a teacher, and that’s going to make the per-pupil expenditure for those kids much higher.

Back in the day, a kid with reading problems would get an "F" on their report card and would have to repeat the grade until they had adequately mastered the required subject material. Now, they get special treatment at the taxpayer's expense. Such tutoring should be paid for solely by the parents. If the parents are too lazy to earn the money, they can tutor the kid themselves like parents used to do when I was a kid. Alternatively, the kid doesn't graduate. Problem solved.

Frankly, there's no reason that schooling should cost more than $2000-3000 a year per student. The rest is union-mandated fluff designed to employ (at taxpayer's expense) a bunch of otherwise-unemployable recent college graduates with their prestigious degrees in underwater basketweaving and such.

[Truth29]

Could it be that more spending is not about helping the students, but more about transferring money to Democrat voting blocks which then send more back to Democrat organizations and candidates? It almost sounds like money laundering...

[jmaroneps37]

Gee I wonder if the schools in the bottom 10 have unionized teaching staffs?

[Skooz]

bfl

[Roninf5-1]

The government could spend a trillion dollars per student but they cannot over come one immutable, universal truth : you can’t fix stupid. If you ask me FEDGOV deliberately wastes time and money on these feeble minded miscreants to divert resources away from kids with potential. They last thing the FEDOV wants is a population of well-educated, self-reliant, independent minded adults that understand history, economics, and their God-given rights.

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

Bump for later

[Golden Gate]

Keep your children at home, and teach your kids at home.

The family does it best!