How do you fix the schools in the USA?

Question

Were do get $200,000,000 for Schools?

Answer 1

Encourage the Waldorf system.

Answer 2

I'm a truckdriver and as such I am able to devote alot of hours to thinking about our social ills and how to correct them.

I have a plan so simple to fix our problems with the school system that some think tank in DC should have thought of it years ago.

Why does throwing more and more money at our educations system not work?

Each year the problems get worse and worse. Drugs, guns, gangs, corrupt and perverted teachers. Throw money at it trying to solve it, build ever bigger schools where kids get lost or passed on in the system with mediocre skills at best.

40 years ago we did'nt have these problems. We would'nt even think about drug testing or metal detectors because those things were not a problem then like they are now.

Why do you think this is? Of course I have the answer. I call it the bad apple syndrome. We created the problem ourselves.
Think about it, 40 years ago we had elementary schools with a capacity for only about 160-200 kids total. And high schools with a total capacity of around 400 kids.

Of course this meant many more smaller schools but the advantage was that each teacher was only teaching about 20-25 kids in each classroom. The obvous advantage is that the children were more easily controled and recieved more individual attention.

In that situation you may have only had a few bad apples per school, you know the ones, the kids who did'nt want to learn and spent their time trying to be anything but a student. But they were easier to deal with because in a smaller school system they were outnumbered by the kids who did want to learn.

Now fast forward to todays schools 6000, 8000 even 10,000 kid schools. Instead of having one or two bad kids in those megaschools now you have three or four hundred or more. My goodness they become a small army and are able to cowtow the other kids into doing things their way. The kids today own the schools and are controlling their environment to the extent that teachers are afraid of them, afraid to do their jobs.

Solution, break up the huge mega schools into smaller more managable classes. Reduce the number of troublemakers into smaller factions determined by their schoolzone.

Oh I know the economic reasons for housing them in one large facility over several smaller ones but is it really worth it?
Let's throw the money in the right place instead of where it will only cause us to need more and more to stay on the path we are on now.;

Answer 3

From the money put into devices to look through walls, now in use by our U.S. government, as well as the cost of all the arms we keep giving people around the world and calling them "lost," or "misguided judgment." (well, I don't know about the second... we all have that from time to time, though not on such a horrendous scale.) (but we'd better not at voting time!)

What we don't have is all the arms, or the $$$ spent on proven-to-be fanatical wars on terrorism--'funny' ideas that have been budgeted in already.

Or we go to the corporations which are slowly taking over the world... we go to the U.S. ones and tax them for this and that for the schools, and more. They have so many breaks and many seem so "tight," already it's pretty sad for general economy problems.

We'll see what happens, I guess, and work toward personal goals in relation to the schools, hoping to influence others.

Answer 4

The only schools in the USA that really need fixing are the government schools. The answer is to get the government out of the business of educating our children.

Answer 5

It's funny how funding can appear when the children and the schools teaching them are a high priority. But you can't get docile, uninformed, and controllable citizens that way can you? Many lives and billions of dollars spent for George's pis

Answer 6

Privatise them. Competition creates better anything. Protectionism (unions) breeds incompetentness.

Answer 7

I think I may have that sort of money under my sofa cushions