This link here has a nice graph showing test scores compared with money spent per student.
Every time I hear another person complaining about education spending I get all hot under the collar. We do spend some money on the kids, I like my saxon and singapore math, enjoy the classical academic press language, and we even enjoy some local classes. But really I fall into the less than 600 spent per kid. So having someone think that spending even more per student will help, just pushes my buttons.
You can't throw money at the public education problem, the system is the problem, not the amount of money you do or do not spend.
But folk think you are a mean person if you don't jump on the 'pay our teacher more' bandwagon. Honestly I do feel teaching is a tough job, I have enough trouble doing it with only 5 students. I know good teachers are hard to come by and I know they deserve lots of respect, prolly money.
Except I also know that folks wont face the problems of a coerced public education system while they are too busy fussing over how much a good teacher gets paid.
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