It still befuddles me why the arguments, in the 70s, that spending money on education reduces other costs down the road--prisons, police, etc.--and provides more productive citizens, why that argument failed and keeps failing.
This argument failed, IMO, for this reason, John. First, because just raising salaries from say, 40K to 60K a year, and jumping the administrators accordingly, will not improve the teaching in the schools. Second, there is no correlation between cost per pupil in the system and excellence in the Schools. Look at DC, and the total failure of the Kansas City experiment.
You need to introduce accountability and responsibility into the system. Not gonna happen anytime soon. Between the Educational, Administrative, and Teachers Union Bureaucracies, and the refusal of the public to accept Vouchers, things are gonna have to get a lot worse before we can get a revolution that will make them better. Too bad. The kids and the country lose. |
