The Chicago Public School system spends $27K/year/student, or so I've heard. Give me 30 kids and $810K and I'll rent a spacious first class facility next door to a Planet Fitness that they'll all be members of, provide transportation daily, lunch, make the parents sign waivers regarding our discipline policies, hire 3 old school nuns armed with rulers and paddles.... and not only will those kids score in the top 20% nationally, I'll still pocket $200K per classroom.
Quite so. However, the cost per child calculation is a shell game. I have read more per student, much more, and also less, and it varies from school to school. They shuffle money around and into different categories that are an expense to school district but not necessarily calculated as direct teaching per pupil costs. You know, like for example, how bout that billions they just got to upgrade schools so that they would be safe for kids to return. That's fed funny money and so things like that get buried because it undermines the teachers union demand for more and more. Y'all know the lefty script these days. A teacher is supposed to say "hey, I am buying supplies out of my own pocket." Yup that has become a mantra. A lefty teacher friend layed that one on me a couple times after I had heard it five times that week already and I told him that he was buying supplies out of his own pocket because the union had that money. I could pretty much hear his anal sphincter gland slam shut when I said that. Look. It's like dis. Conservatives and libs are caught in a time warp on this educational freedom thing. They think everything is about hill billy christians in west virginia wanting to home school for evangelical reasons or whatever the stereotype is. Nope. Just for the reasons you VZ cited there are dollars flying around and people want choice. It is not about homeschooling although that could be an option. The newer model is presented in terms of neighborhood school pods or micro-schools where there can be cross fertilization and resources shared across micro-schools where like-mindedness creates such opportunities. The language game gets the lefties all juiced up. If you mention "vouchers" and community or home school they start to melt down. But if you come it from another angle and say "I think that every parent should be allocated some funds so help set up local Montessori schools, then they love your arse. Even frigging Teddy Kennedy came out in favor of school choice- but later dialed it back when it was not part of the dnc platform. Not to forget too. As I tell the lefties just before they begin to punch me in the face "we should have a public option too, just like y'all want for Obamacare." womp, womp, womp. This is from 2019 and I already said at length that they use ten different ways to calculate so please don't bother to present some different numbers. I covered that. Also don't bother to point out to me that lots of other schools have similar amounts. BECAUSE LOTS OF OTHER SCHOOLS ACTUALLY HAVE RESULTS TOO. CHICAGO IS FAILING SCHOOL SYSTEM. Also dont bother to point out that the lower cost school here is also a chicago public school. That just makes my point. More choice is good. Also I need to see the data on how they are learning at the lower cost school. Maybe they are doing very well and deserve more funding versus the dud schools. Or maybe the city is cheaping out on them and the cost is low but so are the education services. Don't know. It all needs to be outcome based and measured. That will actually help many micro-schools. And some it will hurt. Fine. Giddy-up. The Chicago Public School spends $40,822 per child at Stock, which is tops in the state for public money spent per pupil. Contrast that with another Chicago public school, the Asian Human Services — Passages Charter, which spends just $3,475 per student — sixth lowest for all schools in the state of Illinois. https://chronicleillinois.com/gover...lassroom-spending-in-illinois-public-schools/
Ya know, some people here are pretty friggin stupid. I don't know why (some) here call you an idiot. For real. Even if I hated your opinion on things, it doesn't take an Einstein to realize your prose does not emanate from the pen of an idiot. Ditto Ocho. You guys may be opinionated, but idiots you're not. I guess it takes a certain type of wisdom to see a certain type of obvious. The name callers down here in the ET cellar.... they manifest nothing but a lack of worldliness. I for one respect intelligence---- "on both sides". You're ok by me Tree. As are a few others. You knew that already though lol. ________ "The power of a gun can kill the power of fire can burn. The power of wind can chill and the power of the mind ...can learn" -Tupac Shakur
__________________ "It's been said that if you can't find the idiot at the table, it's you." https://www.smh.com.au/business/wor...-idiot-at-the-work-table-20160426-goew3t.html
Yeah well, many things have been "said". I don't think Tree is the idiot at the table. Nor are a few others. You're on the fence however. You have a slight degree of potential. You'll be better when you mature I suspect.
Although money is required to improve facilities, recruit better staff and provide better supplies the problem is not just about increasing the budget. Schools in inner cities or rural communities all suffer and not because of race issues but the dysfunction that comes from poverty regardless of race. A school system is supported by tax payer revenue and poor districts pay less in property taxes so the budgets are quite different than a nice suburb of Chicago. The solution is not about dems or repubs or liberal v. conservative... it goes deeper sadly and money alone is not the fix.
You really don't want me to post the link, or excerpts, to our recent debate; where my potential energy fully transformed into kinetic energy and rained down logic, lyrics, and reasoning upon you like a Florida Hurricane, all to show everyone an example of the dumbest generation ever?
You're right, and neither I nor anyone else (purportedly way smarter than moi), has the answer. There is an intangible answer though, it's the family structure. But how do you fix that? Kids need parents that care. Fix that and you'll fix everything else.