It’s all about money. We could educate children for a fraction of what it costs to warehouse them in the so-called education establishment. That fifteen to twenty thousand dollars per student per year pays for salaries, retirement, union dues and, of course, political patronage. This is why we don’t have vouchers widely available. Unions would lose. Politicians would los. Teachers would lose. The only winners would be students and who the heck cares about them?
‘It’s all about money. We could educate children for a fraction of what it costs to warehouse them in the so-called education establishment.’
So ... since the money is getting spent anyway, let’s bring free market concepts into the mix along with as much deregulation as possible.
let’s get those teachers competing and freed up to work-from-home or while on a lifelong vacation. The most desired teachers will get rich.
And let’s get those study halls [aka ‘classrooms’] competing.
But then they wouldn't be as easily conditioned to obey the armed guards, and go where they're supposed to be when the bell rings.