too much tax money to our failing public schools?

Question

the public schools system in this country is abismal. they take a bunch of tax and federal money, but that mostly lines the teachers and administrators pockets (at least in my town, when we vote more money to schools, teachers strike for pay raises) i think the schools are a joke, im homeschooling my children, and yes i have a teaching degree, or will when she starts my classes.....

i just think that maybe the money would be better spent on defense or something else...because the liberal garbage that they are filling our children with isnt even knowledge............and all that money, down the toilet. our children are our future.....so maybe they deserve better than the current system..../

thoughts?

teachers in my area make almost 50k a year...cops make less than 35.............and mpost of the kids in my area run into cops more than their teachers, lol...

whatre the actual numbers for high school graduation.........how many kids actually graduate high school? then college? how many of the success stories are from our underclasses?

the 2nd answer is the famous "if you dont like it you can geeeeeeet out" defense......foolish

Answer 1

you dumb *** you really are uneducated arnt you? the reason our schools are failing so much is because of Bush's no student left behind it puts unreasonable quotas on teachers and keeps other students from geting ahead, also where i live teachers arnt paied crap, because all of our government money is going to this stupid war, and the military if the government spent half of what they sepent on this stupid war and our "Defence if thats what you want to call it", on schools every school would be top notch state of the art learning center.
P.S. home school can have a severe social impact on you childeren, due to lack of group effort and interaction with new people, not telling you what to do but maybe reconsiter if you care about your kids sucessfull future.

Answer 2

Yes, the public school system is in bad shape, but not all because the teachers and administrators are inept. They simply don't get a chance to do their jobs. The teachers are also nurses, therapists, disciplinarians, etc. They only get to really "TEACH" about 30% of the time. Too many parents have abdicated their responsibility to raise their children to the schools.

I believe, however, that the main reason the public school system graduates illiterate students wholly unprepared for college, is that the end users (business, the military, industry, society in general) is just fine with the results. As the quality level of education increases, expectations of the graduates to find high paying, rewarding jobs also increases. Those jobs simply do not exist.

Answer 3

I believe the real problem starts with the family, or lack of. A big problem is that it is fun and easy to make a baby, but actually raising one takes responsible, nurturing parents. Throwing more money at a school doesn't make kids learn. Politicians who cut, or don't increase money for education are quickly assaulted by their challengers as "against education". Teachers are no longer able to dicipline children, so the unruly kids can run the classroom. In Philadelphia, the mayor had a huge town meeting regarding excessive truancy in the public schools, many parents and children walked out and where actually telling the news reporters things like "who is he to tell me how to raise my kids", and "I just don't like school".
I am convinced that the stupidest people are having the most children and saturating the gene pool with low IQs, then putting little to no effort into raising them. Short of mandating a license to have children, I only see the problem escalating.

Answer 4

Everyone wants the schools to operate on nothing. If teachers in your area are making 50K annually, then you have a right to demand results. Most teachers, particularly in the Western US, are not nearly so lucky to have even close to that income. In the intermountain West in particular, becoming a teacher is nothing less than taking a vow of poverty. But let's just cut to the chase, save some money, and kill the public school system. Then we never have to worry about our kids leaving home and we'll always know where they are: Walmart, because it needs plenty of uneducated, easily exploited workers.

Answer 5

Where do you live Baghdad? That's certainly not the over all numbers. Look it up. The reason officer pay is down is because some asshole in the presidents seat decided to cut spending on the D.A.R.E. program and other PD branches. So we could declare war in Iraq. And teachers deserve the money they get paid. They put up with more kids a day than the parents. Including the ones that have problems with the law. I do think that officers should get a raise. I work for the gov. I know where the for Iraq money comes from. Everybody has to take it for a littler longer. Obama will straighten it all out. It's time to educate our children not pull them from school. Let your kids learn from school and compare to what you teach your kids at home. Let them think and make their own judgment calls. It's time to take the video games away and give them a book. Not a computer. Let them read and earn the information.

Answer 6

Maybe if we cut some of the bums off of welfare we can pay for better teachers in these public schools.

The teacher gives the grades and the student earns it. It is the student that fails out of High School. Even if the teacher does not teach a single thing people choose to pass.

Oh yeah, and survey says that there is a drop in high school teachers because of horrible pay... So you may want to do some research.

Answer 7

The School system in Newark NJ was 2-3 times the money spent per student compaired to that of any other school in several counties surrounding it and the graduation level was abismal. Typical Liberals, through enough money at a problem and it will grow like weeds. The Liberals ask for GW Bushes exit strategy and never had one for any liberal program in 60 years.

Answer 8

i'm a prime example. i worked very hard during my elementary and high school years. i'm not a brainiac by any stretch of the imagination, so i HAD to work hard. i did graduate 15th in my class with a state honors diploma and was on my way to college... but, when i got there... i was NOT prepared. and i did not take pancake courses in high school. i took trig, calc, physics, the whole nine yards to prepare myself for college classes.. and when i got to college, i was talked into taking 21 hours and 19 hours per semester which included 3 sophmore level classes my first year. that's alot for any student. but, from what i was able to accomplish in high school, how was i supposed to know that college would be such a blow to the face? almost 10 years later, i haven't finished college and i probably won't. i do not think our public schools (the majority anyways), do a very good job of preparing kids for higher education. especially when people like me try and continue on the path that i started. too many people i know took the bare minimum in college just to get adjusted. some do it fine like this, alot still fail, and alot (like me) do not go this route and end up paying for it in the end... something needs to be done. it's no coincidence that other countries are waaaay ahead of us in major courses of study. it's a shame.

Answer 9

Actually, most American schools are excellent. The poorer districts have the most problems.

I don't think it's a matter of "too much money." The money that is given to many districts is wasted. And I don't know how to fix that - beureacrats + free money = trouble.

Love Jack

Answer 10

I agree whole heartedly....this is exactly why I pay an obnoxious amount every year for my son to go to a private school.

I firmly believe that if you are paying for private school...you should be exempt from paying the local school tax...or at least let private school be a tax write off.

EDIT TO ADD---

To the clown below me...

What would you rather us do...let our children become a product of the public education system? Sorry...don't think so...

Additionally...nothing has changed in recent years...why on earth would I send my son to a public school and HOPE and WAIT for a change?