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> Imagine if teaching paid as well as software development. I’d love this personally. But the organizations that employ teachers do not make the same amount of
by zamfi 7y ago
> Imagine if teaching paid as well as software development.
I’d love this personally. But the organizations that employ teachers do not make the same amount of money, per employee, as organizations that employ software engineers.
Depending on your state, your property taxes would need to double or triple to make the math work out.
To be clear: I’m not making a comparison of the value provided, just the accounted-for profit. Society as a whole would obviously benefit from exceptional math teachers at every school, but we would need to get creative to pay for it. Perhaps we should be spending less on wars.
- rocqua 7y agoIts weird that education is payed for completely by property taxes in the US. The benefits of education go to more than just the (parents of) the recipients of that education. You also get weird incentives for people to reduce these taxes if they send their children to private schools.
- war1025 7y agoI believe the idea of schools being funded by property taxes is that you then spread the cost load out over people of all age groups, in a way to acknowledge that having educated children is a benefit to the community.
- barry-cotter 7y ago> Its weird that education is payed for completely by property taxes in the US. This isn’t true. From the CPC Popular Front funded Brookings Institution. https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-progressive-is-school-funding-in-the-united-states/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-progressive-is-school... > School funding systems vary by state, but in the typical state, the financing of K-12 education is shared roughly equally by the state and local governments (with the federal government covering less than 10 percent of the cost). Most states have provisions designed to target additional funding to districts attended by low-income students, with the goal of making up for these districts’ limited capacity to raise revenue through property taxes and other local sources. > Nationwide, per-student K-12 education funding from all sources (local, state, and federal) is similar, on average, at the districts attended by poor students ($12,961) and non-poor students ($12,640), a difference of 2.5 percent in favor of poor students.
- zamfi 7y ago> The benefits of education go to more than just the (parents of) the recipients of that education. I think this is exactly the intent — get the whole county / district to pay, not just the parents, right? And these payments are usually compulsory regardless of whether you have children or send them to private school...