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More money hasn't solved public education yet, and I'm not sure what more money - for how school districts want to spend it - would do.

Charters and vouchers are generally meh to me, too. But I'm not hearing how money solves public education. Money is spent now.

 

You’re not sure how money matters to public education? Jesus Christ on a crutch.

 

Alma, I moved to a town with what many other places in the US would call confiscatory real estate taxes to pay for my kids' schools. They graduated and went on to graduate with honors from BU. They are successful, happy adults in their chosen life paths. The very reason housing prices are so high in Lexington, Mass. is that the sellers and buyers both know the public education system is among the nation's best because they pay to make it so.

 

Yes the public schools of Kentucky are famously drowning in money.

 

I know how property taxes work.

 

Oh, I understand the principle behind it.

 

OK, let’s say they’re not. What’s more money gonna do? How’s it spent?

Apparently Koziol just wrote another book at 87, but, I don’t think we’re in the “savage inequalities” era any longer. (That’s a book he wrote.) Over the last 35 years we’ve largely - not *entirely* but largely, on balance - addressed some of the disgusting things that were true in the 1980s.

 

Would you rather your children went to newer, well appointed schools with decent facilities and teachers with a low teacher to student ratio, or an older, poorly equipped school with rundown facilities, poorly paid teachers in classrooms with 35+ students?

I've asked this before and so far as I know have never been answered. Do you have any kids? I think that gives a certain perspective which seems absent.

 

More money hasn't made us safer either. But we keep throwing billions at the DOD.

 

Ohhhhh, just shut the fuck up once in a while, wouldya?

Go clean your toilet or something. Thanks.

 

More money may not solve the problems of schools, but less money sure as shit won't.