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Politics : Socialized Education - Is there abetter way?

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To: tejek who wrote (96)	1/18/2007 11:42:06 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) of 1513

So what? Because of circumstances peculiar to my situation, my living expenses amount to $4K per month. My monthly salary is $1300 which is not nearly enough. If you double that salary, that's better but still not enough. So please don't tell me how the amount of money spent on schools has doubled or tripled or quadrupled over the past 50 years. Those numbers are meaningless without knowing the financial needs for a district and whether the district has ever gotten enough money to maintain and operate its schools. If your income doubles, triples, quadruples and keeps going up, and you still don't have enough, perhaps you need to make drastic changes in your life style, rather than to beg that you need more. You could sell your BMW <g>. Perhaps you know you will make a lot more or your expenses will go down in the relatively near future so you can just draw down saving or go in to debt. In any case this really isn't about you. The schools don't produce their own income that will massively grow soon, and if they don't make changes their costs won't shrink. Doubling the (real per-child) resources we pay for educating kids each generation probably isn't sustainable. If that isn't enough for the schools the way they are currently set up, then we have to change how they are set up. Some doctors are saying that for the first time in American history the current generation of kids may not live as long as their parents because they are living such unhealthy lifestyles now as kids. There are a whole lot of doctors in the US. You can fine some of them to say just about anything. I'd give pretty good odds that the trend to longer average life spans that's been going on for centuries isn't going to end in this generation. The website above probably is factoring in private schools into their numbers. The other countries on the list have private schools as well. Whether or not the numbers are accurate for just public schools, there isn't any good reason to think that the order, or comparisons to the average are off.

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