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Spending in general is not a universal or meaningful metric to measure quality of education, details matter. Huge sums spent on school security/meals/transporta
by YarickR2 6y ago
Spending in general is not a universal or meaningful metric to measure quality of education, details matter. Huge sums spent on school security/meals/transportation do nothing to increase quality of schooling compared to countries where all those measures are unnecessary (safe urban environments with parents able to feed kids by themselves)
- umanwizard 6y ago> Spending in general is not a universal or meaningful metric to measure quality of education Right. Are you agreeing with me? Is this not my entire point? > Huge sums spent on school security/meals/transportation Any numbers on what fraction of school budgets these typically are?
- krapht 6y agoI can't be bothered to break out Excel to tally up the numbers, but here's a link to a typical suburban school district budget if you want to run the numbers yourself: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FY-2022-Superintendents-Proposed-Budget_final.pdf https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FY-2022-Supe...
- AlexTWithBeard 6y agoBut if not spending, how else could "the country" care about the children? Or you're saying that no amount of money can replace a caring parent?