How can we STARVE these schools of funds? By not paying our property taxes?? That is where the public schools get most of their funding.
The irony is that when we take our kids out of the government schools and put them in private schools the government schools actually have more money to spend while we have less.
In other words; they have more money to indoctrinate the remaining kids and we have less because we are now paying for private schools in addition to paying for the public schools thru taxes.
Districts are paid PER PUPIL and PER DAY via the state of California. This is common across the United States. This is the reason some districts have enacted policies of not taking “attendence” until 11:00 or so in the morning (so as to allow the lazy class to get out of bed). About a hundred years ago, when I was in school, attendence was “taken” at 8:30am sharp.
When you keep your kid at home, the district loses it’s matching money from the state.
Don’t take my word for it; ask one of our FReeper educators. They’ll tell you the same thing I just did.
In California, each school takes daily attendance. If your child misses school, thelocal school district does not pay the individual school for your child’s attendance for that day. Keeping kids away from these schools deprives the individual school of $.
Districts are paid PER PUPIL and PER DAY via the state of California. This is common across the United States. This is the reason some districts have enacted policies of not taking “attendence” until 11:00 or so in the morning (so as to allow the lazy class to get out of bed). About a hundred years ago, when I was in school, attendence was “taken” at 8:30am sharp.
When you keep your kid at home, the district loses it’s matching money from the state.
Don’t take my word for it; ask one of our FReeper educators. They’ll tell you the same thing I just did.