Why's it cost every household $5000 in taxes just to run a public school?

Agreed

$80k plus for private schools

And ignoring your made up numbers for a second, what is your proposal? Not educate people? Parents don't go to work? Help me out here..

Baltimore spends $21k per year (4th most in the nation)

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.

Well, with your post you proof already that we need more and better education.

Where does that $5000 in taxes number come from?

Not made up just because they aren't the same #s in your town, fool

Educated people are harder to manipulate & the teachers are in a union - that’s your real political problem with 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.

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?

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" 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.

The national average is $17,124 per student for PUBLIC schools.

In DC where the average kid reads at the level of a golden retriever the average is $32,577 per student.

The proposal is not shamelessly wasting so much tax money.

The chancellor of schools in DC which are some of the worst schools on the planet (and getting worse) makes a base salary of $280,000 a year.

The amount of money flushed straight down the toilet in education spending is astronomical.

First, according to this the avg in the US is $15K. Only NY comes close to spending that per pupil.

https://research.com/education/public-education-spending-statistics

I was going to add more, but seeing as how your number is not representative I am going to skip.

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.

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.

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.

Woops wrong thread.