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Where I live, the government spends 16,500 ANNUALLY for each K-12 child. Getting $250 once doesn't seem like it will have a huge benefit to someone's life.
by daft_pink 11mo ago
Where I live, the government spends 16,500 ANNUALLY for each K-12 child.
Getting $250 once doesn't seem like it will have a huge benefit to someone's life.
- bluGill 11mo agoAgain, depends on how it is spent. How much of that spending is for outliers - every school has a few severely disabled kids who can't even feed themselves: schools spend a lot more on those kids even though they will never learn. Also there is a lot of money spent on sports, music, art... which have debatable use in education - your community has come down on one side of the debate, but that doesn't mean it is right. Note too that higher education in the US is partially supported by things other than tuition and so 250 can go farther than it seems because it is 250 applied to your portion of the whole... We can debate how much different payers should pay, but that is a different question.
- daft_pink 11mo agoI think if this were a much larger number like $100k or even $10k, I might agree with your argument, but the fact that this less than 1% of a college degree or less than 1% of a communities total spending on a child or even just a fraction of the minimum wage. I feel he would have been better off going to someone like Coursera and funding minimum accredited US associates degrees and delivered electronically and delivered for free to anyone in the United States. It seems like the buying power of $6 billion to deliver electronic services on the cheap would make more sense than giving millions of children a one time amount of essentially pocket change in relation to total spending.