The $40K/year number is generally in the larger cities with heavy union
control - and unfortunately the places with the highest spending typically
have the lowest achievement. Wash DC is one of the worst - very poor
education and very high spending. This is also where minority families
pushed the hardest for School Vouchers to level the playing field. But they
lost, unions and politicians won.
There's an excellent article called "The Dumbing Down of America" which can
be found easily on the net - if need be I’ll be happy to send you a copy on
request.
It's lengthy at 700+ pages (IIRC 300+ pages are Appendixes) but each page is
full of disturbing info about the American Ed. System and how it got that
way. It's a well documented, well written white paper.
As Jim Cathway said <<You want to kill something, give a government a
monopoly on it>>. No truer words were ever spoke....
LarryT
91 300D
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Cathey
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 4:21 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] made up statistics
The average cost to keep a kid in school for 6-7 hours a day varies, but
it is mostly 30-40k a year, about what it "costs" to house a prisoner full
time.
We pay about $4500/year for our 3rd grader. Private, there
are no subsidies whatsoever. And these kids _learn_. I remember
Kindergarten, we had blocks. These kids are doing Venn diagrams...
Three teachers, 22 students, four grades. They rent space in the
basement of a church.
You want to kill something, give a government a monopoly on it.
-- Jim
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