And... given many ed bureaucrats make several 100s of K in salary with rich benefits and pensions... and union bosses like Randi W also make 400K in ill-gotten gains, I don't think public ed is exactly a model of austerity. On average we pay 300K for every classroom. The bloated bureaucracy sucks that up.
I agree, public education needs an overhaul. But an overhaul is not elimination. We're not just talking about individuals, we're talking about putting the highest-quality people into the workforce regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances or zip code. Investments in human capital pay off at a rate estimated at 7:1, calculating both the addition of a well-educated workforce and the subtraction of costly social issues. But a long-term investment in the capacity of all citizens -- regardless of circumstances, profitability, or geography -- simply is not incentivized in unregulated capital markets.
I think we've gone as far as we can productively go on this discussion, given you are unalterably opposed to competition and choice in education. And given you have a very Marxist view of free markets.
We do. Public schools arent that.
Markets cannot and will not do better. If your goal is quality education for all children everywhere, profit can't be the first goal.
Every good charter school is a nonprofit.
And... given many ed bureaucrats make several 100s of K in salary with rich benefits and pensions... and union bosses like Randi W also make 400K in ill-gotten gains, I don't think public ed is exactly a model of austerity. On average we pay 300K for every classroom. The bloated bureaucracy sucks that up.
I agree, public education needs an overhaul. But an overhaul is not elimination. We're not just talking about individuals, we're talking about putting the highest-quality people into the workforce regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances or zip code. Investments in human capital pay off at a rate estimated at 7:1, calculating both the addition of a well-educated workforce and the subtraction of costly social issues. But a long-term investment in the capacity of all citizens -- regardless of circumstances, profitability, or geography -- simply is not incentivized in unregulated capital markets.
I think we've gone as far as we can productively go on this discussion, given you are unalterably opposed to competition and choice in education. And given you have a very Marxist view of free markets.