Sure! Throw Some More Money At Public Schools' Bureacracies

This is a driect quote from Michael Medved--hitting the nose on the head on one of my favorite topics. There WILL be more on the problems running rampant in our public education system to follow. But this is what we do when we do not prioritize educating our children but rather we like looking like we prioritize them.

Squandered Resources —Michael Medved

American education faces serious problems, but a lack of spending isn't one of them. The Census Bureau shows we now spend more than $8,000 per student in primary and secondary public schools.

This means that even for a comfortably small class of 25 students, we invest the amazing sum of $200,000 a year. Allotting the teacher a handsome salary--say, $100,000 for the 10 months of the school year--that still leaves $100,000 for books, laptops, field trips, a janitor, overhead and so forth. With this kind of generous expenditure, we should hear no complaints about cash-starved schools, but far too much of that $200,000 never makes it to the class room--it's squandered on bureaucracy and political correctness.

Schools will only operate on a sane, business-like basis when educational choice forces them to compete with lower cost, more flexible educational alternatives.

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