Why?
It's simple.
Apart from the fact that public schools are failure factories despite their enormous budgetary drain on society, here are some other reasons why kids are better off elsewhere:
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...physical-sexual-verbal-quot-abuse-by-teachers
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?95311-Teachers-in-the-news
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?95426-Teachers-in-the-news
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?95594-Teachers-in-the-news
I have hundreds of examples.
The fact is that parents are forced by high taxation or their own poor financial decisions to dump their spawn in what are (realistically speaking) taxpayer funded day care centers, where kids are often abused and exposed to anti-American propaganda.
They certainly are not prepared for fulfilling lives as adults, and the bloated salaries and inflated benefit packages that unions have extorted from DEMOCRATS as the price of their support are in no way justifiable, given the shambolic showing of American public education industry in international rankings.
The national average public school teacher salary for 2017-18 was $60,477.
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...rage public school,from the prior school year.
And don't try to tell me we don't "invest" enough.
Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States in 2016–17 amounted to $739 billion, or $14,439 per public school student enrolled in the fall (in constant 2018–19 dollars).1 Total expenditures included $12,794 per pupil in current expenditures, which include salaries, employee benefits, purchased services, tuition, and supplies. Total expenditures per pupil also included $1,266 in capital outlay (expenditures for property and for buildings and alterations completed by school district staff or contractors) and $379 for interest on school debt.
Current expenditures per pupil enrolled in the fall in public elementary and secondary schools were 20 percent higher in 2016–17 than in 2000–01 ($12,794 vs. $10,675, both in constant 2018–19 dollars). Current expenditures per pupil increased from $10,675 in 2000–01 to $12,435 in 2008–09, decreased between 2008–09 and 2012–13 to $11,791, and then increased to $12,794 in 2016–17.
Capital outlay expenditures per pupil in 2016–17 ($1,266) were 10 percent lower than in 2000–01 ($1,412). Interest payments on public elementary and secondary school debt per pupil were 22 percent higher in 2016–17 than in 2000–01. During this period, interest payments per pupil increased from $312 in 2000–01 to $415 in 2010–11, before declining to $379 in 2016–17 (all in constant 2018–19 dollars).
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
The USA spends more per pupil than any almost any other developed nation on education, and what do we get for our money?
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
https://data.oecd.org/united-states.htm
If parents cannot afford daycare for their own kids, they should abort them before they become a burden on society and a boon to the public education monopsony.
It's simple.
Apart from the fact that public schools are failure factories despite their enormous budgetary drain on society, here are some other reasons why kids are better off elsewhere:
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...physical-sexual-verbal-quot-abuse-by-teachers
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?95311-Teachers-in-the-news
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?95426-Teachers-in-the-news
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?95594-Teachers-in-the-news
I have hundreds of examples.
The fact is that parents are forced by high taxation or their own poor financial decisions to dump their spawn in what are (realistically speaking) taxpayer funded day care centers, where kids are often abused and exposed to anti-American propaganda.
They certainly are not prepared for fulfilling lives as adults, and the bloated salaries and inflated benefit packages that unions have extorted from DEMOCRATS as the price of their support are in no way justifiable, given the shambolic showing of American public education industry in international rankings.
The national average public school teacher salary for 2017-18 was $60,477.
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...rage public school,from the prior school year.
And don't try to tell me we don't "invest" enough.
Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States in 2016–17 amounted to $739 billion, or $14,439 per public school student enrolled in the fall (in constant 2018–19 dollars).1 Total expenditures included $12,794 per pupil in current expenditures, which include salaries, employee benefits, purchased services, tuition, and supplies. Total expenditures per pupil also included $1,266 in capital outlay (expenditures for property and for buildings and alterations completed by school district staff or contractors) and $379 for interest on school debt.
Current expenditures per pupil enrolled in the fall in public elementary and secondary schools were 20 percent higher in 2016–17 than in 2000–01 ($12,794 vs. $10,675, both in constant 2018–19 dollars). Current expenditures per pupil increased from $10,675 in 2000–01 to $12,435 in 2008–09, decreased between 2008–09 and 2012–13 to $11,791, and then increased to $12,794 in 2016–17.
Capital outlay expenditures per pupil in 2016–17 ($1,266) were 10 percent lower than in 2000–01 ($1,412). Interest payments on public elementary and secondary school debt per pupil were 22 percent higher in 2016–17 than in 2000–01. During this period, interest payments per pupil increased from $312 in 2000–01 to $415 in 2010–11, before declining to $379 in 2016–17 (all in constant 2018–19 dollars).
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
The USA spends more per pupil than any almost any other developed nation on education, and what do we get for our money?
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
https://data.oecd.org/united-states.htm
If parents cannot afford daycare for their own kids, they should abort them before they become a burden on society and a boon to the public education monopsony.
