I'm going on the assumption this is accurate but maybe there is data showing otherwise. Assuming this is true I'm still trying to understand how you've picked Finland as the example we should follow. (And it would be great if we only paid lawyers this amount.)
Oct. 5 is World Teacher’s Day—here’s how much teachers around the world are paid
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/10/05/...-are-paid.html
Even when we spend more money on education and the results don't change the response is always 'we need more money'. It's a way of sounding like you care without ever addressing the issue of how we deliver education in this country.
You want to talk about Prop 13 and then people talk about our state having a $30 billion surplus. We're not able to distribute that money to education? You just want to talk partisan trash, which is your right to but you're not serious about education.
they could eliminate some of their six figure positions that serve no purpose.
here's an example !
my wife was the clinic assistant at the local high school. concussions have been a big deal over the last ten years of more and rightly so as they are frequent and potentially deadly. the county has a six figure admin whose sole job was to manage the process for logging/tracking students through the concussion protocol. after the first year this expensive admin has done nothing but alter snips of wording that served no purpose and changed nothing in the protocol but it DID seem to justify her continued existence.
that would buy quite a lot of pencils and tissues.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
The second part is where we disagree. You think America is spending too much on education, and I think America is spending too little on education.
We have a shortage of teachers, and an even bigger shortage of competent teachers. Pay cuts will just mean worse teachers.
The second part is where we disagree. You think America is spending too much on education, and I think America is spending too little on education.
We have a shortage of teachers, and an even bigger shortage of competent teachers. Pay cuts will just mean worse teachers.
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Sailor (01-25-2022)
Every American could get their education online.
I am quite sure the government would do an adequate job of teaching American students this way.
Plus, students would not have to worry about school bullying/shootings/Covid-19/etc..
And the money saved would literally be in the tens of billions.
And if individual states want a 'better' public schooling?
They can pay for it themselves.
No offense man.
But if you honestly think that bureaucrats are never lazy or corrupt?
You do not know what you are talking about.
Some are good.
Maybe even most.
But many are lazy, corrupt and greedy.
The latter two - especially the higher-ups.
Have you never been to a DMV office?
Please do not tell me that you get wonderful, fast service when you do?
Because I doubt almost any American would believe you.
Online education has not been good so far.
The Federal Government funds less than 10% of government education, so it is already done through states and local governments. I would question whether YouTube videos are really a replacement for schools.
They are often lazy, and sometimes corrupt, but they are exceedingly rarely overly cost cutting. They are more usually over spending. If there is a problem with too little being spent, do not look at the bureaucrats.
The third one is the biggie. They are not willing to cut spending too much.
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