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| King Tøny:
Mexico isn't paying for the wall we gotta build it somehow. |
| Otis Da HousKat:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on March 18, 2017, 03:35:36 AM ---Crappier schools do not exist if you completely get rid of educational funding. Market principles will artificially select for the best schools with the best students, meaning the stuffty schools either close down or become entirely defunct. --- End quote --- I would think there are enough stupid people in the world for the market to support lower grade schools. |
| Conan:
--- Quote from: Otis Da HousKat on March 18, 2017, 10:44:38 AM ---I would think there are enough stupid people in the world for the market to support lower grade schools. --- End quote --- except it would be far less profitable. there's enough poor people in the world to support one large shark loan providing company, but if you have the money to run that you could probably run a more legitimate business that makes comparable money. pretty sure the point here is that you'll end up "tracking" a lot of the students, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy for poor students to do poorly in school and perpetuating their financial and social status. id say more on this but im on mobile rn |
| Operator¹:
--- Quote from: Ninja Decoy on March 18, 2017, 02:50:33 AM ---Schools spend more on athletics than academics, to where every school Ive been in since middle school has had really stuffty computer, books, desks, and all around just old nearly broken stuff yet every single school had brand new equipment for the sports teams. Hell I think one of my high schools even made a new stadium in town. The problem isnt that schools get too much funding, its that they spend said funding on athletics because it makes them even more money. I dont see it changing even with the removal of $6bil, they will still find a way to neglect the academics and fund the athletics. --- End quote --- It was the opposite at my high school, the administration didn't fund athletics well because they were more focused on academic performance. While I was there the sports teams were having a hard time getting replacements for broken equipment. Despite this, we still had a bunch of old computers that weren't replaced. The school district also seems to be somewhat incompetent because one of the teachers there told me that the school had ordered a CNC machine, but it was stuck in a warehouse for some reason, and I guess the district didn't want to send it over to the school. This change would only hurt the school. |
| Corderlain:
--- Quote from: Badspot on March 18, 2017, 03:19:11 AM ---Yes. Because that is the only control that is possible. The alternative would be to have some kind of federal micromanagement of individual school hiring and spending - which would just create even more waste. Cut the whole thing off, deal with your own school system and don't stick me with the bill when I'm not even in the same state. Micromanagement of funding isn't my job. You're buying crack, so I'm cutting you off. Don't blame me for not forcing you to buy groceries every week. --- End quote --- I feel like this should be the only argument needed to be said. Anyone who's had to be independent and paid their own bills should understand this. |
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