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[NEWS] Annoying Orange cutting budgets of public school programs by 6 billion, afterschool
Tezuni 2.0:
Good. I pay just under a third of my income to federal taxes and a sizable chunk of that is sucked into bloated school systems.
But on the other hand there are far more rampant spending that needs to be reigned in -- Annoying Orange wanting to increase the already ridiculously over-sized military budget by 50 some odd billion is insane. We already spend more in defense than the next seven countries combined. We pay for all the R&D into these technologies and then countries like China and Russia get those designs leaked or hacked not long after.
joe411:
Here's the problem: Annoying Orange isn't picking and choosing which public schools are defunded. He's just defuding all of them.
So while the crack-buying schools are being rightly punished, the grocery-buying schools are unfairly given the same treatment.
Kochieboy:
--- 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.
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--- Quote from: Operator¹ on March 18, 2017, 11:52:57 AM ---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.
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Why don't people just, oh I don't know, find a balance between this stuff?
McZealot:
not sure why Badspot seems so sure that regulating school spending is a bad idea. He says it would create 'even more waste' but I'd be happy to see an extremely small amount of spending (probably less than 1%) allotted to public education go towards ensuring we put more money towards actual education and less towards sports. as it is now I attend a school that can't afford paper. teachers are forced to ask for donations from the class--meanwhile, we are able to construct multiple sports stadiums and maintain 4-5 athletic gyms. he's making a comparison to a homeless person wasting money on crack--and I totally agree--except he's not suggesting penalizing *my* school, perhaps to encourage them to do better with their funds--he's encouraging loving over every single public school in the US. it's like publicly executing all the homeless because the aforementioned dude spent too much money on crack. the end result is far worse than any misguided potential gains.