> -----Original Message----- > From: -Brandon Lacy Campos > > I have just been waiding through the archives, and I couldn't > find the post. > But, I went through this before debunking the $14,000 myth.
[TB] What spin ... "the $14,000 myth"? We know exactly what that number is. The school board tells us their budget, you divide it by the number of students and puff ... $14,000. Math, just as they teach it in MPS. It costs us $450 just to bus a kid to school, 5 or 6 times that for a special ed kid. > When you focus only on instruction time (and > even adding in > building costs) you come up with about $2000 dollars spent > per pupil on > actual instruction time. A woeful pittance. [TB] Okay, now I get it. You want more. At our average of 25 students per classroom you're only spending $50,000. That gets us the teacher (in some cases not even that) and nothing more. Unless you want to cancel the health insurance benefits for the teaching staff. Now I don't know what the magic number should be. I suspect where we actually are is somewhere between Jesse Ventura's "education is a black hole" and the "woeful pittance" I'm not sure why we have some students who do very well while others are doing poorly. Students in the same school building, even in the same classroom. The success stories suggest to me that there is more involved than just the money. Terrell Brown Loring Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
