America has too many bad schools.
Fixed it.
Its certainly not about “education” - its about maintaining the bloated and politically-loyal vast educrat bureaucracy.
There are lots of Marxist teachers out there that need the jobs that conservative teachers aren’t allowed to do.
And not enough prisons.
I didn’t graduate from high school but I do know a school is merely a building.
Thed problem is too many teachers. There is no excuse for having 1 teacher for 8 children in a classroom.
The graph explains it. Many schools were built during and after the baby boom. And they tended to be built to last back then. But in spite of the fact that the population has more than doubled since then, American women are having fewer, if any, children.
A woman I work with explained it this way: all of her age-mates are either single or married with no plan for having any kids at all. Kids are expensive, and take away time from having fun.
The K-8 school I retired from used to have roughly 360 kids. Now it’s down to 250 kids and few kids show up for Kindergarten screening every year.
You get more of what you subsidize.
Basic economics.
Especially at elementary level. Anything bigger then about 300 and the kids become lost in the shuffle.
“Children of Men”
- great movie about the horror of vanished fertility.
They come here to be refugees, NOT STUDENTS. THE BASS TURDS NEED THEM TO BRING THEIR OWN TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS WITH THEM. I KNOW THE CINCO DE MAYO CROWD ARE MORE INTERESTED IN Puebla, Mexico than they are Lexington or Concord.
Went to my 50th HS reunion last summer. They tore down the old HS and built this huge new one with as many facilities as a small college.
When I went there, there were 1400 students in grades 10-12. The town had two JrHSs, grades 7-9. Now, they had to make HS grades 9-12, and they still have fewer than 1200 students. They also had to close one JrHS and put all of the town’s 7th and 8th graders in one place.
The population of the town is about 25% larger now, too, just fewer kids.
Every home should be a school. Every school building should become a warehouse.
America has one too many newspapers.
America has too many Teacher’s Unions. One is too many.
Continuing proof from Upstate NY...
Check out the attitude public employees have toward their cash cows...er, taxpayers.
More schools, more administrators
Way too many administration offices in my county. One county with 5 administration offices.
One office could administer all county schools. Maybe add a person or two to process additional payables and payroll.