New School Facilities, Higher Taxes, Low Expectations and Outcomes.
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
June 13, 2007 4:37pm CST
Public schools in the U.S. spend more money than ever before. Referendums for budget increases are up over $100 Million for single county school districts.
Do brand new buildings, Laptops in each room, plasma televisions and lavish campuses ever improve the education of the students?
School districts keep telling us how much more money they need. They make their cases by threatening to cut music, athletic and drama departments. However, what they never seem to do is show us how much education improved the last time we gave them more money.
If $100 million facilities don't make for a better education for students, why should we continue to fund them?
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2 responses
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
15 Jun 07
The education system in America is the biggest scam in history.
They are the only ones to get by with continually substandard performance while at the same time always demanding more money for their "underpaid" teachers.
Get rid of tenure, get rid of the teachers union and make next years contract contingent on last years good performance...and get rid of the Department of Education.
Better yet, just homeschool and get rid of the public school completely.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
18 Jun 07
I don't know about everyone being homeschooled, but I am all for doing away with most of what we call "public schools"... at least the way they are run now.
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
18 Jun 07
We should privatize education. Government shouldn't fund education. First of all, public education vs private education is wasteful. For example, average public school spends $7,000 per student. Private school charges on average $2,000 - $3,000. if we cut all spending on education, this would eleviate money that could be used as a tax cut, and that would give the money back to the tax payers who then could afford private or home school. I don't understand how anyone can justify spending more money on private schools, they teach stuff like africa is the mother land even though anyone with basic knowledge knows that life started in modern day Iraq. Economy, civics, and western culture are not taught. This explains why people have no understandment of how basic politics and government work. That is why you get people who say tax increases improve the economy.
