School spending myth

[vern_humphrey]

When discussing stats with anyone I have found through experience that going to the point of argument is useless. And yes I have had the advanced courses required in grad school. Both of my business and educational degrees required stats classes beyond the basic. One thing that I remember being clearly stated is any stat can be segued toward what you want to say by placing the emphases on differing things and outing information that does not support your theory.

And that is why peer review is so important in areas like this.

And if anyone knows of a peer-reviewed study that shows a positive and statistically significant correlation between spending and student performance, please post it here.

 

[KathleenElsie]

Now back to the original subject. Throwing money, my money and yours, at a broken system is never a good solution to fix something.

I wonder how many students we could send to Universities after they were homeschooled with the funds we throw at the early years of teaching social policy and not reading, writing and math skills?

I think education is backward. The family should be responsible for the basics (with help for families that can’t provide this in the form of cyber schools if need be) and then let the public fund higher education. We would get more for our money.

Let the local government fund playgrounds and sports if they wish for all ages. This is a health issue not an educational issue.

But then this is just me talking. I have just been told our school taxes will go up another 5% across the board. This will add to our total anywhere from $200 to $500 depending on how they split it.

 

[vern_humphrey]

Now back to the original subject. Throwing money, my money and yours, at a broken system is never a good solution to fix something.

I wonder how many students we could send to Universities after they were homeschooled with the funds we throw at the early years of teaching social policy and not reading, writing and math skills?

I think education is backward. The family should be responsible for the basics (with help for families that can’t provide this in the form of cyber schools if need be) and then let the public fund higher education. We would get more for our money.

Let the local government fund playgrounds and sports if they wish for all ages. This is a health issue not an educational issue.

But then this is just me talking. I have just been told our school taxes will go up another 5% across the board. This will add to our total anywhere from $200 to $500 depending on how they split it.

If there is a lesson, it is this – the Public School system has proven it can absorb unilimted amounts of money and produce no results.