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> The local public school program that he would be in is overwhelmed. Pay more taxes. Solve the problem for all people who run into it, not just the ones who c
by spiderfarmer 3y ago
> The local public school program that he would be in is overwhelmed.
Pay more taxes. Solve the problem for all people who run into it, not just the ones who can afford it.
- troupe 3y agoDo you see any upper limit for how much you are willing to pay per student to have them educated in society?
- chii 3y agoThe upper limit would be the expected total contribution to society that person would create in their lifetime.
- Racing0461 3y agoWe already pay more per student than literally any other socialist country. More so in the "bad schools". Money isn't the problem, it's "da culture".
- cherry_tree 3y agoWhat do you mean by “da culture”
- yterdy 3y agoEvery time this line of thought comes up, I wonder where these people think the money is going. Perhaps to teacher salaries in very high cost-of-living areas? Perhaps to providing basic services to students (like breakfast and basic therapy) that their parents can't because, as a society, we've deemed the latter unworthy of a decent income, for whatever reason? Perhaps to maintaining failing infrastructure that was purposely neglected for decades? I feel like they think that the money is given to the kids directly, who waste it on weed and the hippity hop albums or whatever. Call it what it is: racism and classism destroys their critical thinking capacity.
- Racing0461 3y agonah, its the administrative state where all the money is going. ie not to the kids or the teachers. same thing for college (private or public). professors salaries didnt go up. i wouldnt mind paying teachers more directly its just that the money gets sucked up before it touches them.
- yterdy 3y agoI've never seen proof of this, nor why it's any different for wealthy school districts where cost-per-student is nominally lower (parental investment notwithstanding). But that's beside the point, because the notion is always brought up as a way to say that the students themselves are a lost cause.
- Racing0461 3y agoanti-intellectualism and faux-intellectualism.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoIn 2019 the US was at 38% above average with four other countries above us: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp... I think our educational outcomes are not in line with our spending because a part of our political apparatus is simultaneously trying to sabotage the program.