Peace In Our Time!

[SykkBoy]

Originally posted by Peaches@Mar 22 2004, 04:24 PM
Lance, you cannot equate the $$$ spent on education with a good education. The City of Atlanta spends more per child than any other school system in GA yet continues to have the lowest scores, more dropouts, lowest grades, etc. Right now I believe they are spending around $10K a year per student. Take that exact same $10K and give it to a private school and see the difference in education. And incredibly, the teachers at that private school are making LESS money than the public school teachers so even giving teachers a higher salary won't make a difference, IMHO.

true, $$$ doesn't always mean success, but that often times is because no one watches where the money goes...

I've managed to get fairly entrenched in my childrens' school and find out what's going on and keeping educated myself.

Too often people DON'T question where the money goes in their school districts, they don't get involved enough. Sadly, my kids go to school with the children of these people. People that barely know the name of the principal of the school, people that don't attend school-parent meetings, people who don't get involved.

Hell, maybe I'll just hire my kids' teachers to become full time tutors to my kids and I'll teach them TGPing on the side...