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“If only we spent enough money on schools” is the perpetual liberal lament. All the endless money we spend is never enough. Teachers can get paid six figures and property owners can be taxed out of their homes and it’s still not enough. Even though the more money gets spent, the worse the results get.
What could possibly explain this mysterious phenomenon? How about this?
Public schools spend more than $20 billion annually on teacher training to help the nation’s teachers, a majority of whom are white, teach across lines of racial identity. However, none of the 42 large U.S. school districts interviewed for this project measure the impact of their training against metrics or evidence generated in an objective research study.
$20 billion.
We could simply ask the question of whether test scores have improved in the last 60 years. We’ve had over 60 years of complaints that schools have too many white teachers. As if there’s some sort of obstacle blocking minority teachers from getting in the game. Just the opposite. School systems loudly recruit and applaud minority teachers. Especially black ones. Especially black men.
There are cities that have a majority of Hispanic public school teachers. There’s no obvious evidence that they perform any better.
No one checks for results because they don’t want to know the numbers and the whole purpose of the exercise isn’t to improve student test scores. That’s not what equity is about anyway. It’s a philosophical position that actively seeks to produce worse results in order to justify its ideological indoctrination.
Meanwhile, a lot of money that could have been spent teaching students instead goes to DEI.
Money for Education going to CRT and Climate Change Indoctrination
We had better schools in the 1950s, locally funded on a tight budget.
It’s been obvious for a VERY long time that the public school has become an accomplished indoctrination tool for the Democrats…and they are completely aware of their successes there. Hillary and others wouldn’t have pushed to change the voting age to 16 if they weren’t confident in their brainwashing abilities.
Frankly, I feel sorry for the extreme working poor who feel they have no other options but to send their children to these indoctrination camps, but for everyone else who can afford private school, and out of sheer laziness have taken the easy, less expensive route, the liberalization of America and the potential fall of the Republic is on YOU. If my wife and I could manage it, fresh out of the military and barely able to rub two pennies together at that time, ANYONE can. Love (for America AND your children) will find a way.
The destructive philosophy of equity, which used to be called egalitarianism, has infected all schools, including most if not nearly all private schools too. If you send your kid to private school you better go there and check to see what they’re teaching your kid.
Homeschooling seems to be becoming the only guarantee of educational content and that your child is actually learning. And if enough parents were to home school what will happen then? The totalitarians will outlaw home schooling.
The ”free” money has infected the Charter School system now. The leftist couldnt shut down the Charter Schools, so it did the first best thing (fund them with our tax dollars).
Now that they pay the bills, they have the first say in curriculum. The bs and tranny mess we were all running from is now in the Charter system.
The teachers that were running from the same mess, are now trapped with administrators that are hooked on free money.
The department of education needs to be dismantled. The whole system has turned into a rip off for tax payers.
Only the parents should pay for their own kid’s education.
“It’s a philosophical position that actively seeks to produce worse results in order to justify its ideological indoctrination.”
Thanks for mentioning philosophy which is the root cause of America’s and the West’s collapse.
On a similar line to “Where is the money going?” Consider Chicago:
–Classroom size: 28
–Cost per student: $29K
–Cost per classroom: $812K
–Average teacher pay $79K
*1, 2, and 4 come from various web sites. 3 is derived.
That leaves almost 3/4s of a million PER CLASSROOM per YEAR(about 90% of the cost). I.e. Only about 10% of the cost goes to the teacher. There are a lot of classrooms in Chicago.
Let’s assume an average of one substitute teacher per classroom at full time pay (that should be a gross over estimate – It would mean each teacher only works half of the 180 days of a school year but you have to add some for summer school. Let’s also assume there is one retired teacher at full pay for each (30 years of teaching and 30 years of retirement plus a starting age of 22 is 82. (The lifespan in America is under 80.) That means four teachers per classroom on full pay, or $316K. That leaves ALMOST HALF A MILLION PER CLASSROOM PER YEAR to pay for the buildings and other administrative costs. A school of 20 classrooms costs almost $10 million in non teacher costs per year.
p.s. That 560 student, almost 10 million (plus teacher salary) school counts as barely making it into 2A in many states. We’re not talking about a large school.
Hey, we’re stupid, but at least were inclusive about it.