[Cincinatus' Wife]

52% of Arizona’s $9B budget goes to education but it’s never, ever enough.

This is commonplace - most states spend more than half of their budget on education.

[grobdriver]

most states spend more than half of their budget on education

And look where it has gotten us. The kids of yesterday are the parents of today and the percentage of those where socialistic teaching stuck is alarmingly high - and getting higher.

[Do the math]

I can teach mathematics without any textbook, a calculator would be nice yet it is not necessary. I can use rubber bands to get linear, quadratic, and logarithmic functions. Give me a chalkboard, and I can bring mathematics alive. I have taught at several universities, and been an invited lecturer at dozens of schools. I have taught over seventy different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. I am a published author, and have discovered thousands of new formulas. I have taught ACT, SAT, and GRE prep classes. I can convince you that a negative number times any other negative number is positive (no it's not a damn rule). However, I am not qualified to teach even at a middle school, because I do not have a teaching certificate. Money is not the problem. So called “educators” are the problem.

[SkyPilot]

52% of Arizona’s $9B budget goes to education but it’s never, ever enough. This is commonplace - most states spend more than half of their budget on education.

Most of New Jersey's budget goes to teacher salaries and pensions (over 70% of all property taxes go to teachers pockets), and right behind that are the "Abbott Schools" - which are schools in majority black or Hispanic districts that take tax property money from majority white suburb districts because that is what the "constitution" says (according to the NJ Supreme Court). No, I am not joking - its been this way since 1985.

[kearnyirish2]

Here in NJ 3/4 of our property taxes pay for public schools; it has created a middle upper class core of permanent Dem voters (present in every municipality). We see no results, and as our best & brightest flee we are left with a poorly trained workforce of uneducated young people. Telemarketers speaking second-grade English, cashiers that can’t make change, etc.