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What should schools/teachers have done differently? (Just curious)

seibelj 6y ago
Redirected funding to parents to hire their own teachers, or enabled teachers to teach a group of say, 20 students, in a privately provided location to safely continue teaching. The massive population that makes up a school simply doesn’t work in a pandemic, but teachers unions and the institution of public school is too rigid to change whatsoever. They would rather hurt children than adapt, it’s absolutely pathetic and immoral if not evil.
- thatguy0900 6y ago
  Schools are so underfunded that teachers are commonly expected to buy their own classroom supplies with their own money, I don't know what money you expect to be diverted to parents to hire their own teachers outside of the richest of school districts
  - seibelj 6y ago
    We pay more per pupil in our urban districts than any other western nation. If the money isn’t going to teachers, it’s going to the horrible and inefficient bureaucracy surrounding them. I suggest taking the $15 to $22k we pay per student (depending on the city) and giving it to parents to choose how to spend it instead. I guess I’m the crazy one?
    - mac01021 6y ago
      So you're not talking about a response to the pandemic here. You want this reform independent of that.
  - missedthecue 6y ago
    NYC schools spend more than $20k per student and get lower standardized test results and GPAs than Idaho which spends $5k per student. Lack of money is not the problem. The spending model is. I don't think people appreciate how much is spent on public schooling in the US. According to data collected by the Federal Government, it's an average of nearly $15,500 PER student PER year. That's an enormous amount of money and the results don't show. I don't think throwing more and more money at it is the solution to government bureaucracy and waste.
    - thatguy0900 6y ago
      That's fair. I think the solution is probably closer to emulating Idaho rather than privatizing schools, though

Redirected funding to parents to hire their own teachers, or enabled teachers to teach a group of say, 20 students, in a privately provided location to safely continue teaching. The massive population that makes up a school simply doesn’t work in a pandemic, but teachers unions and the institution of public school is too rigid to change whatsoever. They would rather hurt children than adapt, it’s absolutely pathetic and immoral if not evil.

thatguy0900 6y ago
Schools are so underfunded that teachers are commonly expected to buy their own classroom supplies with their own money, I don't know what money you expect to be diverted to parents to hire their own teachers outside of the richest of school districts
- seibelj 6y ago
  We pay more per pupil in our urban districts than any other western nation. If the money isn’t going to teachers, it’s going to the horrible and inefficient bureaucracy surrounding them. I suggest taking the $15 to $22k we pay per student (depending on the city) and giving it to parents to choose how to spend it instead. I guess I’m the crazy one?
  - mac01021 6y ago
    So you're not talking about a response to the pandemic here. You want this reform independent of that.
- missedthecue 6y ago
  NYC schools spend more than $20k per student and get lower standardized test results and GPAs than Idaho which spends $5k per student. Lack of money is not the problem. The spending model is. I don't think people appreciate how much is spent on public schooling in the US. According to data collected by the Federal Government, it's an average of nearly $15,500 PER student PER year. That's an enormous amount of money and the results don't show. I don't think throwing more and more money at it is the solution to government bureaucracy and waste.
  - thatguy0900 6y ago
    That's fair. I think the solution is probably closer to emulating Idaho rather than privatizing schools, though