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$650 for seven weeks of half-day school? If they ran regular school, 35 weeks of full day school would cost $650 * 2 * 35/7 = $6500 per student per school year.
by xyzzyz 5y ago
$650 for seven weeks of half-day school? If they ran regular school, 35 weeks of full day school would cost $650 * 2 * 35/7 = $6500 per student per school year. That’s like half of what the government spends per student in regular public schools. If Jiechu is so amazing that its students get significant boost over public schools, maybe we should abolish normal public schools and instead send all kids to Jiechu, to both get better results and save money at the same time.
- rayiner 5y agoIt’s a prep course. The point is that it’s within the reach even of quite poor Chinese immigrants.
- rahimnathwani 5y ago"That’s like half of what the government spends per student in regular public schools" I had never heard of Jiechu until just now, but you could achieve this 50% cost reduction simply by having class sizes closer to those of China's high schools (~48 per class) than those in the US (~24 per class). This is before you consider other potential cost savings, e.g. - contract teachers can be cheaper than unionized employees - no costly central bureaucracy