So my generation (in school from the 70s-80s) had a significantly lower population than the ones that preceeded us, resulting in a downgraded education curriculum.
Tell me I deserved that for not being able to find enough peers.
The point of socializing some goods and services is becauae profit doesn’t drive mail service to rural and wilds. Profit doesn’t drive cures for rare diseases. And profit doesn’t drive the availability of basic education to all Americans when there are low-population classes or a region with too few kids.
So the per-capita formula for budgeting a school doesn’t actually work…if the state is there to serve the public and not the capitalist.
If we admit the state is there to serve capital and not the public, well, then we have a much greater crisis.
So the per-capita formula for budgeting a school doesn’t actually work…if the state is there to serve the public and not the capitalist.
I’m not arguing for the per-capita formula, but if that’s what we’re using, let’s not act like these kids are greedy bandits running off with all the public education money.
I’m not even sure that it’s bad that you be able to go elsewhere. I don’t want people being taught a fundamentalist agenda on tax payer dollars, but I also don’t want kids to be forced into schools that are a bad fit for them because “that’s where their parents live.” I always did better in a more independent study environment, I probably could’ve had an easier time (in terms of learning things) if my parents had pulled me out and let me go to an online school that let me just skip the lecture and dive into the actual material.
Every state has different funding structures as well. Ohio bases funding IIRC primarily off of real estate taxes in the local community … which leads to schools like the one I went to having ancient text books and public schools in rich neighborhoods having (at least anecdotally) literal iPads for every student back in like … 2010.
I know Ohio’s system has been ruled unconstitutional twice but nobody’s actually fixed it. Education funding is a mess, but “having options” isn’t a bad thing so long as those options are of sufficient quality.
So my generation (in school from the 70s-80s) had a significantly lower population than the ones that preceeded us, resulting in a downgraded education curriculum.
Tell me I deserved that for not being able to find enough peers.
The point of socializing some goods and services is becauae profit doesn’t drive mail service to rural and wilds. Profit doesn’t drive cures for rare diseases. And profit doesn’t drive the availability of basic education to all Americans when there are low-population classes or a region with too few kids.
So the per-capita formula for budgeting a school doesn’t actually work…if the state is there to serve the public and not the capitalist.
If we admit the state is there to serve capital and not the public, well, then we have a much greater crisis.
I’m not arguing for the per-capita formula, but if that’s what we’re using, let’s not act like these kids are greedy bandits running off with all the public education money.
I’m not even sure that it’s bad that you be able to go elsewhere. I don’t want people being taught a fundamentalist agenda on tax payer dollars, but I also don’t want kids to be forced into schools that are a bad fit for them because “that’s where their parents live.” I always did better in a more independent study environment, I probably could’ve had an easier time (in terms of learning things) if my parents had pulled me out and let me go to an online school that let me just skip the lecture and dive into the actual material.
Every state has different funding structures as well. Ohio bases funding IIRC primarily off of real estate taxes in the local community … which leads to schools like the one I went to having ancient text books and public schools in rich neighborhoods having (at least anecdotally) literal iPads for every student back in like … 2010.
I know Ohio’s system has been ruled unconstitutional twice but nobody’s actually fixed it. Education funding is a mess, but “having options” isn’t a bad thing so long as those options are of sufficient quality.