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2018-08-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

Why Does It Cost So Much to Educate a Child in America?

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-14 03:03|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "wraparound support services" = government replacing parents.

I'm surprised nobody has pointed out how racist it is to assume that being around black parents is toxic to their children.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-08-14 04:10|| 2018-08-14 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Twenty-five years ago, I dealt very closely with the Akron school system as a USAF recruiter.
It was hopeless then, and I suspect it hasn't gotten any better.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-08-14 04:50|| 2018-08-14 04:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Who produces the administrators and educators that run this ship? The same ones who credentialed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, our universities and colleges. They all changed to paper mills in pursuit of subsidized monies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-14 08:02|| 2018-08-14 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 We always hear about how the US healthcare system is too costly and under performs. The stats are always dicey. Maybe we should switch out healthcare for public education as a more precise measure of the shortcomings of the greatest nation on earth.

Posted by regular joe 2018-08-14 09:32|| 2018-08-14 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Mmmm...textbook standardization,
transportation motor pool that nobody uses,
aging/failed facilities and physical plant,
property appreciation, toxic children?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-14 09:42|| 2018-08-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh,...and tenured instructors.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-14 11:40|| 2018-08-14 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 The Fake Indian, who made $400K for teaching one class, might be a part of the problem too. Of course, she'll tell you otherwise.

Posted by Raj 2018-08-14 12:15|| 2018-08-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Gender, Ethnic Studies profs earn about $12k more than peers

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-14 13:35|| 2018-08-14 13:35|| Front Page Top

#9 The "education industry" like all others in America is about sustaining itself, nothing more.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-08-14 17:43|| 2018-08-14 17:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Stupid kids grow up to embrace common core and then teach it making them all the more stupid so it takes longer to teach them duh!

Posted by Jack Chaiter7913 2018-08-14 17:48|| 2018-08-14 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 they arent educators they're aministrators

Posted by 746 2018-08-14 19:40|| 2018-08-14 19:40|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 - when semi-coherent and not stupidly profane or bot racism, we leave him up

Posted by Frank G 2018-08-14 19:55|| 2018-08-14 19:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Who said they are being educated?

Posted by newc 2018-08-14 21:05|| 2018-08-14 21:05|| Front Page Top

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