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According to John Stossel,
who has apparently been blacklisted by that bastion of morality and
truth, the NEA, for being against public schools, the government's
public system spends an average of $10,000.00 per student on education.
He doesn't report where he gets the root figures from, but I'm
suspicious of big, round numbers being tossed around as fact.
Still, it sounds about right. The NEA is constantly pushing for more money for education. If you're a politician, you must show you're for education by appropriating more funds this election season than last season. How does the lottery (a.k.a. the stupidity tax) make itself appealing? By offering a portion of the proceeds to education. Government sponsored monopolies--or fiefdoms, as Stossel calls them--consume more and more money. The lack of competition spurs a nefarious bloat that, left unchecked, will consume every last resource. Communism proved that in its failure.
What could they possibly be doing with $10,000 per child? Feeding the NEA's voracious appetite for money. It certainly isn't paying the teacher's salaries.
Do you realize how much a homeschooling family could do with $10K per child per year? I wouldn't know where to go beyond the basics of curriculum, team sports and the occasional field trip to study tropical flowers in their native habitat. But the fact remains that I could educate my children at home for a small fraction of what the NEA says is inadequate.
Still, it sounds about right. The NEA is constantly pushing for more money for education. If you're a politician, you must show you're for education by appropriating more funds this election season than last season. How does the lottery (a.k.a. the stupidity tax) make itself appealing? By offering a portion of the proceeds to education. Government sponsored monopolies--or fiefdoms, as Stossel calls them--consume more and more money. The lack of competition spurs a nefarious bloat that, left unchecked, will consume every last resource. Communism proved that in its failure.
What could they possibly be doing with $10,000 per child? Feeding the NEA's voracious appetite for money. It certainly isn't paying the teacher's salaries.
Do you realize how much a homeschooling family could do with $10K per child per year? I wouldn't know where to go beyond the basics of curriculum, team sports and the occasional field trip to study tropical flowers in their native habitat. But the fact remains that I could educate my children at home for a small fraction of what the NEA says is inadequate.
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