Well for starters, schools are woefully underfunded in the US.
This is a lie, and even if it weren't, there's zero correlation between funding per student and quality of education. Some of the most expensive per-student schools in the US/world produce some of the worst outcomes.
It would probably be more honest to say schools are blatantly broken due to public unions, funding being swallowed up by administrators, and fraud on contracts. This is why city schools are suffering miserably to the point even basic charter schools are able to compete despite local government trying to shut them down. It’s also why homeschooling is skyrocketing. Schools are not underfunded, they’re just full of corrupt, malicious, and incompetent people who make sure that all the funding benefits them .
The very idea of a union whose members are paid using your tax dollars is infuriating. You get all the problems of a union with all the problems of government bureaucracy rolled into one.
At least in my union we don't steal from the taxpayer.
I think that corruption has, evidently, spread even further in recent years as well, far beyond that of inner city schools. Not that it's necesarily pozzed in every school, but that ratio is... not something to get hopeful over.
You know, you're probably right I might've mispoke there. I did at least try to highlight how wasteful schools are though. And I was only talking about public schools, not colleges and universities.
I must've had an NPC moment there because I don't even remember how specifically I'd been given the impression that schools were underfunded. Might've been something locally specific and the details got muddled in my head after a while.
it's probably more accurate to say that the relevant parts of schools are underfunded, by which I mean all the administrative staff sucks up all the dollars and provides very little value in exchange because they're basically parasites.
This is a lie, and even if it weren't, there's zero correlation between funding per student and quality of education. Some of the most expensive per-student schools in the US/world produce some of the worst outcomes.
It would probably be more honest to say schools are blatantly broken due to public unions, funding being swallowed up by administrators, and fraud on contracts. This is why city schools are suffering miserably to the point even basic charter schools are able to compete despite local government trying to shut them down. It’s also why homeschooling is skyrocketing. Schools are not underfunded, they’re just full of corrupt, malicious, and incompetent people who make sure that all the funding benefits them .
The very idea of a union whose members are paid using your tax dollars is infuriating. You get all the problems of a union with all the problems of government bureaucracy rolled into one.
At least in my union we don't steal from the taxpayer.
I think that corruption has, evidently, spread even further in recent years as well, far beyond that of inner city schools. Not that it's necesarily pozzed in every school, but that ratio is... not something to get hopeful over.
You know, you're probably right I might've mispoke there. I did at least try to highlight how wasteful schools are though. And I was only talking about public schools, not colleges and universities.
I must've had an NPC moment there because I don't even remember how specifically I'd been given the impression that schools were underfunded. Might've been something locally specific and the details got muddled in my head after a while.
it's probably more accurate to say that the relevant parts of schools are underfunded, by which I mean all the administrative staff sucks up all the dollars and provides very little value in exchange because they're basically parasites.
Baltimore schools have the highest per-pupil funding in the nation, and their schools look like Port au Prince.