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The first look ever at how the USA's economic downturn could affect education finds that states probably will cut an estimated 18.5% of spending over the next three years, an $80 billion drop that could eliminate 574,000 publicly funded jobs.
For most state governments their largest expense is the education sector. If you want to cut the budget best place to do it is in the education section.
Higher taxes or less teacher jobs. Take your pick.
For most state governments their largest expense is the education sector. If you want to cut the budget best place to do it is in the education section.
Higher taxes or less teacher jobs. Take your pick.
Hmmmm....fewer teachers will result in even more over-crowded classes....exactly how many students can we stuff in a classroom anyway? Fewer students will also mean fewer subjects taught....but really, don't kids ONLY need to know how to read, write, and do math? Who needs to learn foreign languages? Or business classes? Why not cut out all sports and P.E.? After all, Americans are SO~ health conscious and physically fit....the kids really don't need such classes. Computer classes are completely unneccessary as kids are BORN with the ability to properly use a computer and if you do away with computer classes, then voila~! You no longer need computers or tech people or computer teachers. Why not just cut public school altogether and let everyone homeschool their kids? What else are the people who have been laid off going to do anyway? Right? And EVERYONE can teach the basics...that reading, writing, and arithmetic because seriously how hard is it to teach anyway? Not to mention that the average America's reading skills are above par, their writing skills rival that of every other nation on this planet and let's not even get started on how brilliant the average person is with mathematics. What do we need teachers or schools for anyway? Parents can do it all for themselves. That'll save every state a LOT of money and money is what it's all about anyway.
yes because properly educated people is WAY less important than your money.
If the schools were churning out properly educated people at the end, then taxpayers might not mind paying so much. As a previous poster pointed out sarcastically:
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Not to mention that the average America's reading skills are above par, their writing skills rival that of every other nation on this planet and let's not even get started on how brilliant the average person is with mathematics.
Where are these "average Americans" getting their education, or lack thereof? Why would you want to pour more money into a failing system?
On the other hand, taking even more money away from a failing system is bound to create a superior system that needs no funds at all. Guaranteed.
Yeah, the system has failed a lot of people, but it hasn't failed everyone. So, I'm not so sure it's time to throw it out entirely when we don't even have a replacement.
The place NOT to cut is with teachers. You could do away with just about every administrator and things should work just fine.
Don't get me wrong. A really good administrator is worth his/her weight in gold and can make any faculty better. A lousy one, which is what we almost always get (waiting for that job at the district office) can take the best faculty in the world and make it ineffective. More often they just make the best teachers (who truly have the best interests of children at heart) leave.
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