It all depends on where you live. Some states fund schools differently than others. Not all schools are funded via property taxes. Some states do it better than others but in most states there needs to be reform of school funding.
The biggest problem with education in the US is that teaching is not considered a prestigious occupation. It used to be, more than it is, and in many other countries, it is prestigious.
This has so many negative effects it would be hard to name them all, but one of the biggest issues is the vicious cycle where struggling schools reduce the status of the profession, which reduces the quality of the schools, etc.
I am not convinced you thread title is an accurate way of presenting the numbers because some families pay more and some pay less.
My neighbor makes something like $485,000 a year, so his family pays a lot in taxes. Sometimes when we are having a beer, we talk about it, but we don't "complain." I make a lot less, but he isn't "jealous" of me (and my lower taxes). He's doing just fine.
Where are the rich people who get turned poor by their tax burden? I haven't met these people. I hang out with educated, wealthy people who are rich, pay a lot of taxes, and are still rich.
They fund our civilization. Without taxes, we'd be "fending for ourselves" like in Afghanistan or South Sudan. Is that what you want?
Seems way too expensive. $23k per student per year? Wtf? Public school is glorified daycare so adults can go to work! Crazy
I’d gladly pay only $23K for my kids’ private school. Of course, there is a good reason they aren’t in public school. $23K seems high for the quality of public school education.
The biggest problem with education in the US is that teaching is not considered a prestigious occupation. It used to be, more than it is, and in many other countries, it is prestigious.
This has so many negative effects it would be hard to name them all, but one of the biggest issues is the vicious cycle where struggling schools reduce the status of the profession, which reduces the quality of the schools, etc.
The biggest problem with "education" is that kids from middle class and up families come in ready learn and expected to succeed. Kids from bad socioeconomic situations are way behind and often come from homes where education is not valued.
If you swap the faculty from the "good" school to the "bad" school, you'll get the exact same outcomes.
I am not convinced you thread title is an accurate way of presenting the numbers because some families pay more and some pay less.
My neighbor makes something like $485,000 a year, so his family pays a lot in taxes. Sometimes when we are having a beer, we talk about it, but we don't "complain." I make a lot less, but he isn't "jealous" of me (and my lower taxes). He's doing just fine.
Where are the rich people who get turned poor by their tax burden? I haven't met these people. I hang out with educated, wealthy people who are rich, pay a lot of taxes, and are still rich.
They fund our civilization. Without taxes, we'd be "fending for ourselves" like in Afghanistan or South Sudan. Is that what you want?
We're $35 trillion in debt. If a country pisses away it's tax revenue rather than spending it wisely the country will eventually collapse.
Seems way too expensive. $23k per student per year? Wtf? Public school is glorified daycare so adults can go to work! Crazy
I’d gladly pay only $23K for my kids’ private school. Of course, there is a good reason they aren’t in public school. $23K seems high for the quality of public school education.
That's basically the exact amount Baltimore spends per year to have 40% of high schools without 1 single student proficient in math.
A lot of educational costs come from special education and the concept of inclusivity. If we were more willing as a society to track kids and decide who does and doesn't need to meet certain educational criteria we could probably do a lot more with a lot less when it comes to preparing kids for the future. However, doing that would inevitably leave some kids behind and there are serious ethical and logistical questions that pop up here and I'm not sure if meaningful reform can or even should be implemented in this regard.
As far as school being "glorified daycare", for starters, daycare is pretty important. Our society needs people to have kids, and it also needs a workforce. Without both of those things society as we know it collapses. So, don't sell daycare short. Secondly, public education, for all of its shortcomings, has played a pretty essential role in our progress as a civilization over the last 100 years. We're a long way from perfect, but don't take for granted just how good our lives are compared to the generations that came before us.
A lot of educational costs come from special education and the concept of inclusivity. If we were more willing as a society to track kids and decide who does and doesn't need to meet certain educational criteria we could probably do a lot more with a lot less when it comes to preparing kids for the future. However, doing that would inevitably leave some kids behind and there are serious ethical and logistical questions that pop up here and I'm not sure if meaningful reform can or even should be implemented in this regard.
As far as school being "glorified daycare", for starters, daycare is pretty important. Our society needs people to have kids, and it also needs a workforce. Without both of those things society as we know it collapses. So, don't sell daycare short. Secondly, public education, for all of its shortcomings, has played a pretty essential role in our progress as a civilization over the last 100 years. We're a long way from perfect, but don't take for granted just how good our lives are compared to the generations that came before us.
The daycare dig is a shot at the parent(s) not the school.
One could argue that society has regressed quite a bit since letting strangers at a daycare raise your children became the norm.