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> One enabled by having moderately wealthy parents. It is a cultural problem and not a wealth problem. My state spends >$10k per student per year on education
by iateanapple 6y ago
> One enabled by having moderately wealthy parents.
It is a cultural problem and not a wealth problem.
My state spends >$10k per student per year on education.
Excluding my mortgage my expenses for each of my kids (food, transport, clothing, etc) is well under $10k/year.
If we redirected the money from schools to parents the vast majority of two parent households could afford to homeschool their kids.
And that’s not including all the additional spending we do on disadvantaged families.
- avianlyric 6y agoI’m a little confused as to what you’re trying to say. You start with > It is a cultural problem and not a wealth problem. But then go on to explain how providing an extra $10k a year to families would make a big difference in being able to educate their children. You also make the assumption that most people can comfortably earn enough to pay for their own living expenses without children. US minimum wage is far below the US’s living wage, strongly suggesting that there are many people who struggle to feed themselves, never mind additional children. Also there are plenty of families out there that don’t have two parents. Do you suggest we simply ignore them?
- iateanapple 6y ago> an extra $10k a year to families That’s my point - it isn’t an extra $10k/year - thats what we currently give families per kid. > Do you suggest we simply ignore them? Is there a reason they can’t simply keep going to school?