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.
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.