CUT TEACHER FUNDING

How to make American schools better: Cut their funding

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/08/21/how-to-make-american-schools-better-cut-their-funding/

Tea Party Economist – Gary North – 8/21/2012

The great myth of all government bureaucrats is this: if the taxpayers shovel in more money, performance will increase. The opposite is usually true. Cut a budget, and performance increases.

The best example in America life of the failure of the “spend more, and results improve” is tax-funded K-12 education.

In 1959, the typical high school class had a student-teacher ratio above 30-to-1. Today, it is half this.

Small class sizes end when students go off to college. If small classes are good for education, why do colleges stick 100 to 1,000 students in a lecture hall? Why are discussion groups at least 25 students?

Because in college, there are no disciplinary problems. The thugs don’t go to college.

Solution: expel the thugs, early. But school districts are paid by the state in terms of students enrolled. Principals keep the thugs on campus. You get what you pay for. State funding pays for thugs.

READER COMMENT: get rid of the unions, dire the incompetent and keep teachers who are QUALIFIED in the system....my preference is VOUCHERS....allow the parents to SELECT a school for their kids that will help weed out the system ...withold funding from failing schools...evidently they are not interested in really teaching only collecting a check from the taxpayers

READER COMMENT: The solution is obvious to everyone but politicians and educators. Give the money to the states and allow the parents to choose which school to send the money to in tuition grants. Problem solved. No department of education, no teachers unions and much better education. Education has gone downhill since the 1950's with no end in sight. We pay more per student for education in this country than any other country and get an inferior product. Educators are just another hog at the the feed trough.

BLOGGER COMMENT: For those of you who pay real estate taxes, check the amount your real estate taxes pay for “education” and realize that very little of your compulsory payment actually funds the local children. You are paying the pension for early retirement for teachers after 30 years of “service.” They can retire a decade prior to age 65 and you are paying for their pension and possibly insurance premiums as well.

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