Think about the economic drag on our nation. This $17,000/child/ year is money that is taken out of the economy that is not being used to build the economy.
How many jobs go off shore due to the property taxes and hidden taxes that go toward inefficient government K-12 indoctrination camps? How many businesses never get started because the capital needed is sucked up by the rapacious and Marxist dominated indoctrination camps?
How do we balance state budgets and immediately give the economy a massive boost?
Answer: Give every child a voucher for $6,000 or ( if severely disabled) 1/3 of what it costs to educate them now. Then work like crazy for complete separation of school and state.
Our ‘educational system’ is a money pit for sure.
We desperately need some accountability because any money thrown at a system which lacks accountability, is money squandered.
Who needs generation upon generation of people who cannot be employed and who are conditioned to believe that they will be supported by the state? No nation on earth can sustain such a system (much less prosper) under THIS kind of social and economic liability, PERIOD! It is killing us!
Here in MN, Dem mayors and their rat city councils in MPLS and St.Paul raise property taxes, then try to blame “the state” for not giving them more “LGA” (’local government aid)
Yet they always seem to have millions for paving sections of streets with expensive cobblestones, replacing normal street lights with fancy,designer street lights, light rail station art grants, new cultural diversity center buildings, etc.