• Rooster326@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    My state allows you to unenroll your student and take the money towards you home schooling, or charter schools, or other education which is a whole quagmire I’m not gonna get into

    But it’s fucking mind blowing

    They get $10,000/student/year and they’re cramming 32 students into a classroom.

    $320,000 and the teacher makes $45,000 of it

    Where the fuck is the rest of it going?

    We’re getting subpar education - 39% below grade level in reading. 36% in maths. But I would be the bad guy if I choose to take this and “continue the cycle of destroying public education”.

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      2 months ago

      I have no idea how that works, especially in the US but I imagine there are some big ugly corporations that somehow got licensing costs in there. Like licensed learning materials or methods and stuff like that.

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      2 months ago

      All the bullshit deals with corpos that sell textbooks and videos and online learning programs and tablets. Don’t forget the portal subscription to crap like ClassDojo.

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        We’re in the “poor” school district. Nobody has a tablet. Textbooks are older than the original sin.

        And everyday for at least an hour they jumble multiple grades in the auditorium and have them watch “Whatever is on PBS” today.

        Is that where it’s going? Do they just forward it along to the nice schools?

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          You’re probably in a population to needing a school area that doesn’t play very nice for funding of any sort. That or school board is stealing money