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Our government is wildly out of control. You should absolutely NOT have to pay for a war in Iraq or all the other things that the government wastes our tax money on. The only function of the federal government should be DEFENSE. All other government functions should be local...roads, schools, police/fire, etc.
School districts ARE local. Here in Colorado, school funding is a state/local partnership, in order to avoid the "rich district/poor district" situation in many states. Federal spending on education is about 10% of the total money spent on K-12 schooling, and that includes the school lunch program. Some districts get much less federal money than that. Someone posted a link a while back (a long while back actually) that showed how much federal money each school district received, as a total of their budget. My district gets about 4%, which I'd guess is the SLP and Title I. Period.
School districts ARE local. Here in Colorado, school funding is a state/local partnership, in order to avoid the "rich district/poor district" situation in many states. Federal spending on education is about 10% of the total money spent on K-12 schooling, and that includes the school lunch program. Some districts get much less federal money than that. Someone posted a link a while back (a long while back actually) that showed how much federal money each school district received, as a total of their budget. My district gets about 4%, which I'd guess is the SLP and Title I. Period.
Congratulations. Colorado is one of the few states that have a NCLB waiver.
While I don't agree that schools should be voluntarily funded, the problem is that many schools are not educating.
A bigger problem is that parents are not parenting. The best teachers in the world are not going to be able to educate kids whose parents don't give a crap if they get educated.
A bigger problem is that parents are not parenting. The best teachers in the world are not going to be able to educate kids whose parents don't give a crap if they get educated.
How do we save the kid? Give me a real world solution.
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