(06-13-2017, 06:35 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(06-13-2017, 01:19 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: So, instead of the Gov investing in their public school system, they are going to increase their budget by 20x to pay for each child (~$8k per year) to go to a private school.   BRILLIANT !!!  That equates to $384,000 to put a family with 4 kids through 12 grades of schooling at $8k per year.   Let's assume there are 600 kids combined total per grade at Raines & Ribault.   600 kids x 8,000 per year each x 12 grades = $57,600,000 cost per year to the Gov to send the Raines & Ribault kids to the new private school now being subsidized by the Gov.

The government is already spending more than $8K per student.

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/educat...-data.html

Bingo!

The United States spends more per capita by a wide margin than any other country on the planet on public education.  It's gotten us this:

• 41st in math as of 2015
  
• 24th in reading
  
• 25th in science
  

That's our rankings against the rest of the world in education, and we're throwing more money at it than any other country.

At some point, people are going to realize that a lack of funding isn't the issue.  The bureaucratic bloat that exists in our school systems today is unbelievable.  In many instances, private schools actually operate more affordably because they're far more efficient, while providing equal to or better education in most cases. 

The bulk of the money isn't going toward educating children.  It's going to feed the beast, including the bloated bureaucracy, keeping the labor unions happy, and financing a department whose responsibilities SHOULD be handled by the individual states.

Real education reform needs to happen, and the best way to force that to occur is to give people a choice.  It's far more expensive to support uneducated, unskilled individuals than it is to fund a robust and comprehensive education that teaches them the skills to succeed in life, and not so much about the silly peripherals that have become a staple in government indoctrination centers.  Kids aren't learning the core tools of reading, writing, or math, and they are being prevented from learning civics or true world history.  Yet we're spending more per child annually than some colleges charge for tuition.

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