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The US has been continuously defunding and deprioritizing education for decades. This is the result of a culture that doesn’t value education.
by yoyohello13 6mo ago
The US has been continuously defunding and deprioritizing education for decades. This is the result of a culture that doesn’t value education.
- WalterBright 6mo agogoogle sez: "Inflation-adjusted public school funding per student in the United States has increased significantly over the long term, with a roughly 34% increase in inflation-adjusted revenue per student over the last two decades alone. Looking at a broader historical view, inflation-adjusted spending per student has risen by over 200% since the 1960s."
- yoyohello13 6mo agoThis is always a common rebuttal but I used to work in education and believe me there was not a bunch of new money coming in. Quite the opposite. Maybe the data shows funding going up but that money is not making it to the students.
- hotep99 6mo agoThe amount of school administrators and non-teachers have increased at 10x the rate of teachers relative to students since 2000. I have no doubt funding keeps going up but virtually all of it is diverted away into bureaucracy.
- rendang 6mo agoSo if you agree that administrators in public ed are doing a poor job managing the resources allocated to them, do you support school choice efforts that will allow more competition from charter/private schools that have incentives to spend more wisely?
- yoyohello13 6mo agoWhy would private schools be incentivized to spend more wisely? Why would paying a CEO obscene amounts of money to lobby for public funds be better than fixing public schools?
- WalterBright 6mo agoBecause wise spending results in making more money.
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- declan_roberts 6mo agoThis is the bias that keeps us from actually making improvements to the education system. I guess it's easy to repeat and blame money. Kind of like a brilliantly colored red herring.
- yoyohello13 6mo agoFor what it’s worth. I think the rise of anti-intellectualism in our culture has far more impact than funding.
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