[Paleo Conservative]

Here's a news flash: spending more on schools won't necessarily improve results. I notice that you didn't say anything about Utah's test scores or graduation rates, you just referred to state money sunk into the system.

Washington DC spends over $10,000 per child per year, but they rank pretty close to the bottom in acheivement. For that kind of money, you could rent a pretty good room and hire a teacher for $100,000 per year and have a 1:15 student:teacher ratio. I wonder where the money goes.

[SoftballMominVA]

Washington DC spends over $10,000 per child per year, but they rank pretty close to the bottom in acheivement. For that kind of money, you could rent a pretty good room and hire a teacher for $100,000 per year and have a 1:15 student:teacher ratio. I wonder where the money goes.

Where does the money go? The money goes into the special education department in DC. This department is SO inept, there are actually commercials running in the area from lawyers advertising for "students who have been cheated by the DC schools."

Once a complaint is filed, the schools have 60 calendar days to respond. They rarely do and after that, it's pretty much a blank ticket. The schools pay for private transportation, laptops, day placement and residential placement by the truckload. BTW, day placement STARTS at about 75k and residential at 200k. It's ridiculous. And if the kid is special education, this all can continue until the last year of school in which they turn 22.

Out of that $10k a year per student, probably less than half of that is used on regular, normal kids.

[TXnMA]

Washington DC spends over $10,000 per child per year, but they rank pretty close to the bottom in acheivement. For that kind of money, you could rent a pretty good room and hire a teacher for $100,000 per year and have a 1:15 student:teacher ratio.

Outstanding analysis!

I wonder where the money goes.

Good question!!!

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