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| [NEWS] Annoying Orange cutting budgets of public school programs by 6 billion, afterschool |
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| SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Badspot on March 18, 2017, 02:01:49 AM ---The amount doesn't matter. Therefore changing to a different amount will not matter. --- End quote --- I think that if we were talking about like, bureaucratic waste, then changing it to a different amount wouldn't matter. They've done audits of school systems and, like every other department in government, they waste stuffloads of money. But when you drop gigantic cuts across the board, that money also comes out of teachers salaries, AP programs, school orchestras, and school facility repairs. How can you actually say that cutting those parts of education isn't going to hurt students? |
| BlackMod:
Anyone who still supports Annoying Orange at this point is mentally ill lol. |
| Badspot:
Your argument is literally that because school systems waste stuffloads of money, we should give them more money. Like because a homeless guy spends all his money on crack and can't afford food, so we should give him more money. So he can buy crack and food. How about we stop throwing money away and the crack addicts can forget off. The federal government shouldn't even be involved in schools at all. The department of education should be dissolved. |
| SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Badspot on March 18, 2017, 02:15:43 AM ---Your argument is literally that because school systems waste stuffloads of money, we should give them more money. --- End quote --- No, I think that if we want to approve more funding for schools, we have to be more careful about where it goes to. Less hiring more pencil pushers in the department offices, more hiring of good teachers and funding student enrichment programs. Hell, if we put the money into better music education and technology, there is a huge body of research out there which suggests it would help student outcomes. But you aren't saying 'cut the money off from the wasteful parts', you're saying 'cut the money off from everything'. The policy that you're supporting here is literally just the inverted-version of bad education spending hikes. It's just changing funding all across the board without really paying attention to where the money goes. --- Quote from: Badspot on March 18, 2017, 02:15:43 AM ---The federal government shouldn't even be involved in schools at all. The department of education should be dissolved. --- End quote --- yeah because market principles work really well at improving QoL for people that can't pay for the fancy private schools /s I've seen the future of 'school vouchers', and it's going to hurt American educational achievement even worse than bureaucratic waste. Our Republican government in Arizona loves to raise up Basis Scottsdale on a pedestal for what Arizona students can be if we just make everyone go to charters and private schools, but what they won't tell you is that they kick out any student that doesn't pass precalculus before entering high school. So yeah, maybe we'll see growth in the top 10% of students, but huge numbers of kids will drop out who could have otherwise gotten a high school diploma at a properly-funded public high school. What a great improvement. |
| Red Spy:
--- Quote from: BlackMod on March 18, 2017, 02:12:19 AM ---Anyone who still supports Annoying Orange at this point is mentally ill lol. --- End quote --- What a cohesive post |
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