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Originally posted by phredgreen
and so... with all of this shocking information, i have to propose a national-level governing board for our schools... no more of this local-level "one school gets all the good shit and the other gets the crap" bullshit. i think it's time the government stopped blowing smoke up our asses and get serious about education. i read so much about how some places' schools are amazing while schools in other places are closing up the year early because of budgeting issues... it's mad, i tell you . we need something serious if we want our youth to be competitive in the global market.
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Amen. The economics are fucked. Here is an example of how it works:
Why are poor schools poor and rich schools rich? Why do some students get computer labs, the best teachers, up-to-date textbooks, better teacher to student ratios? Why? The economics of schools systems:
Jeanne, single mother of two, works in Highland, for $12.00 an hour. She receives child support, makes extra money when she can, but cannot afford to live in Highland. At the end of the day, she goes back to Lowland, where she resides. Jeanne works hard, and encourages her children to do well in school. Why are her kids schools worse than Highland's? Cause Jeanne pays tax out of her paycheck to Highland. So do all of her coworkers who also can't live in Highland. Lowland hasn't has any serious industry since the Chinese started making steel. The amount of state and local funding is ridicuously lopsided.
It is an economic problem. School funding is very, very backwords. To a certain extent (federally) it is per capita, but not enough. It should be totally per capita. But this, of course, is a pipedream. School funding is political, politicians cater to those who have.