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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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My local taxes say y'all got shit tons of money. The schools just do an absolute shit job blowing it on other things besides walls and salaries for the teachers.
My state allows you to unenroll your student and take the money towards you home schooling, or charter schools, or other education which is a whole quagmire I'm not gonna get into
But it's fucking mind blowing
They get $10,000/student/year and they're cramming 32 students into a classroom.
$320,000 and the teacher makes $45,000 of it and gives subpar education - 39% below grade level in reading. 36% in maths.
Where the fuck is the rest of it going?
And I know this isn't all the funding they get so like....???
I have no idea how that works, especially in the US but I imagine there are some big ugly corporations that somehow got licensing costs in there. Like licensed learning materials or methods and stuff like that.
All the bullshit deals with corpos that sell textbooks and videos and online learning programs and tablets. Don't forget the portal subscription to crap like ClassDojo.
We're in the "poor" school district. Nobody has a tablet. Textbooks are older than the original sin.
And everyday for at least an hour they jumble multiple grades in the auditorium and have them watch "Whatever is on PBS" today.
Is that where it's going? Do they just forward it along to the nice schools?