My wife works as a special ed admin. The amount of money spent in that field is fucking ridiculous. But every child deserves an education, and there seems to be a lot of legal issues on that side of education which makes things more expensive with crazy parents.

Why would anyone want to be a teacher in those states?

100% agreed.

And has people looked at what those teachers in Oklahoma and Arizona get paid? Why would anyone want to be a teacher in those states?

RIP conns, tommy, spany.

Anyone else I missed?

LTG?

My wife works as a special ed admin. The amount of money spent in that field is fucking ridiculous. But every child deserves an education, and there seems to be a lot of legal issues on that side of education which makes things more expensive with crazy parents.

i work with a for profit company that does special needs care for districts who have the students but don't have the facilities or programs in place to take care of it. The money involved per student is ridiculous.

One thing I have never understood about US education is that our per student spending for K-12 is well within the top 5 (and often inside the top 3) globally, yet our results suck when compared with the OECD. Heck, we often fall behind some non-OECD nations when measuring test results. Clearly the problem isn't a lack of funding as the money is there, it's just being poorly utilized. This is pretty much why I will never vote for an education millage. The money is clearly there, it's just not being appropriated as it should.

One thing I have never understood about US education is that our per student spending for K-12 is well within the top 5 (and often inside the top 3) globally, yet our results suck when compared with the OECD. Heck, we often fall behind some non-OECD nations when measuring test results. Clearly the problem isn't a lack of funding as the money is there, it's just being poorly utilized. This is pretty much why I will never vote for an education millage. The money is clearly there, it's just not being appropriated as it should.

We spend a lot of money on everything. It kind of comes with being a superpower for so many decades.

I always love the education reform arguments that emphasize firing bad teachers, removing job security across the board, cutting pay, and then expecting thousands of better candidates to fill those vacancies for apparently no economic reason whatsoever. Nothing will get our best and brightest to seek out jobs in education like making those jobs crappier across the board!

my wife taught music for a few years. she had to spend 10,000 a year on useless crap to keep her music budget. if she didn't they'd take it away and then when she needed it, it would be gone. she had closets of nice casio keyboards that were never used.

also, i imagine that other countries are aborting special needs kids at a much faster clip than we are here. if not, i beleive many other countries we are competing against are probably def not putting the kind of money into special education as we are .

LTG?

That's interesting. I was pretty in the loop on my high school's music department and I can tell you my director was never compelled to waste money on synthesizers because he never had that kind of money to waste. The school board must have felt music was for dumb gay burritos who were gay.

Psycory?

Let's just kill stupid kids.

I'd rather deal with Elmhurst Steve and his racist steak dinner boom trolling than Jimmy Reardon.