As I joked in the thread about the Quippa kid on the pay board...."I thought they only flew him for the games". That is the only problem I would have. If kids well outside a district play for another HS because they are a power.
So you are okay with school choice? If I pay my taxes, can I put them toward a private school's tuition?
You wanna talk about thieves... The thieves are the districts that spend double what other districts do, supplemented by state and federal funding, to produce some of the worst results in the state. Districts run by morons who keep getting bailed out with other peoples tax dollars.
yup - whatever taxes are owed to your home district should apply to even private schools just as long as they're meeting state curriculum standards.
Hopefully the school district can absorb the loss of tax dollars. What happens, though, is that the kids left behind because their parents can't afford the full cost of private education will be the ones to suffer. It just becomes another haves/have nots situation.
I won't disclose the area but I was tasked to look at the amount of money spent per student in our local public schools grades K-5 and the it was about $8000 per student. The local Catholic school (which had far superior results) charged tuition in the $3000 per student range. You could actually give the public schools $5000 in additional funds.
The average PA student has $21,000 per year. Most private schools are not $21,000 per year.
So....teaching kids to pass a multiple choice standardized test is the better way? Standardized tests don't accurately measure student learning and growth. Unlike standardized tests, performance-based assessment allows students to choose how they show learning. Performance-based assessment is equitable, accurate, and engaging for students and teachers.
We both know that it's way more complicated than just measuring some chosen "result".
Well............people do have to understand, life is not fair and "born on 3rd base" is for real. Still, you are in charge of your own destiny....for now....in this country.
1) Let's focus on K-5th grade since that is critical for basic education. On the high end, a private school is $8,000 vs $16,000 in public school. Advantage: Private school
Your retort is that lower income people aren't smart. Well, I don't believe that.
No, I generally think while not so politically correct to say, rich people are smarter than poorer people. On average. Not everyone. But I think there is that correlation towards not just IQ, but obviously educations levels, quality of education and expectations. The last is key. Because it is the same whether it is in Homewood Brushton or the hollers of Greene County and West Virginia. When you have generational malaise towards education and achieving, it takes one strong person to overcome that.
I understand the costs and I think public schools are incredibly important to serve the EDUCATIONAL needs of everyone. Your argument does not hold water since the top performing public school and lowest performing school both spend about $17,000 per student. Do you see that this is not a financial problem? School choice is not about taking money away from public schools, it is about redistributing the funds...which will actually benefit many public schools (financially) since sending them to a private school is typically less expensive then teaching them in public school.
That’s not the bottom line…..not at all. Public taxes often use private business for services and projects. The real bottom line is for those tax dollars to provide an education to children. Not create pension funds, not to build stadiums, and certainly not to be wasted on a system that is failing these children.
Rich people promote education more than poor people. It's important, it's looked at positively, and it's socially acceptable to be nerdy. Rich people get their kids tutors to help them with math, english, etc.. It has much less to do with mental capacity than it does your surroundings.
