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[NEWS] Annoying Orange cutting budgets of public school programs by 6 billion, afterschool
Blockomaniac:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on March 18, 2017, 01:16:46 AM ---Arizona Governor Doug Ducey had the same idea and approved stuffloads of cuts in state education spending a couple years ago. I went to one of the best high schools in the state and we still had to fire teachers and cut programs as a result.
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which one was it? mine's kinda similar but idk if its the result of cuts
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Blockomaniac on March 18, 2017, 01:24:16 AM ---which one was it? mine's kinda similar but idk if its the result of cuts
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As far as I know, it impacted almost every public high school.
Badspot:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on March 18, 2017, 01:16:46 AM ---Arizona Governor Doug Ducey had the same idea and approved stuffloads of cuts in state education spending a couple years ago. I went to one of the best high schools in the state and we still had to fire teachers and cut programs as a result.
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Ok. Is this supposed to be countering my point or agreeing with it? Arizona has the 3rd lowest spending per student and is 27th in SAT scores. New York spends nearly 3 times as much and is 42nd in SAT scores. Cost of living in New York is only ~37% higher than Arizona. Student spending is just waste.
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Badspot on March 18, 2017, 01:53:33 AM ---Ok. Is this supposed to be countering my point or agreeing with it? Arizona has the 3rd lowest spending per student and is 27th in SAT scores.
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Countering it. What you're saying is that spending poorly correlates with academic achievement, so we should cut spending since it won't hurt nor help their achievement.
In other words, you're trying to say that because overall spending doesn't correlate with academic achievement, then changes in overall spending won't correlate with changes in academic achievement. And that's not actually true. If my high school did well regardless of its level of funding, then why was it hurt by spending cuts?
Badspot:
The amount doesn't matter. Therefore changing to a different amount will not matter.