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> The average cost per student in public school is $10,615 per year alone That number surprises me. If you think that the loaded labour rate of a teacher is p
by mikekchar 10y ago
> The average cost per student in public school is $10,615 per year alone
That number surprises me. If you think that the loaded labour rate of a teacher is probably $100K, that gives you a teacher to student ratio of 1:10. Since the ratio is more like 1:30 or 1:40, that means that 65-75% of the cost of education is something other than teachers' salaries.
I've got to think that's an indication that something is very, very wrong. Even accounting for the depreciation of the building and its contents, I wonder if quite a lot of money is being spent on something other than education...
- ec109685 10y agoAverage class size is way less than 30 to 40: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s_007.asp https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s...
- mikekchar 10y agoHmm... Very interesting. Much different than the class sizes I remember from my one and only year of education in the US. Also, very nice if true. I can't quite understand the data, though. In the description for self-contained and departmentalised the percentages don't even come close to adding up to 100%. Are there other styles of teaching whose data is not represented on this chart?