Quote:Well, what's not to like?  LOL.  You seem a decent fellow as well JagIbelieve.  We have completely different world views, but that doesn't mean we should be salty towards one another.  And you keep things level headed, for the most part.  Plus it's good to hear the your perspective, and I respect it while I mostly disagree with it.

 

With that said, money is how most things are fixed...  I mean, imagine if we cut funding to the military and told them to keep policing all the world.  It wouldn't work.  I think it's weird that we want our programs to do so much with so little funding, but we basically give our military a blank check. 

 

You put money into a system, you get highly motivated folks that have all the tools necessary to be the best.  You cut funding and you get what you pay for...  That's been my experience.  Yes there are outliers to my thinking.  But if you look at the big picture, investment is what drives success.  

 

The issue, as we've talked about before, isn't that there isn't "enough" money. The spending curve for public education outpaces almost everything else that we measure, but the results have been flat. The flat line is deceptive though, because wealthy districts improve while poor ones are declining, but much of that is about the student's home lives more so than the quality of the educational opportunity. Essentially, the problem is that it's very very difficult to fix education if we expect the schools to be the solution. The HOMES and FAMILIES are the real answer.

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