Proof that spending more on public schools will NOT lead to better results.
Public education is corrupt at its core. No amount of money will fix it.
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As a reminder, I do not believe that school choice will fix the public schools.
You can check out this post from last August for a full explanation about why school choice is not the answer (TLDR: School choice doesn’t address the problem of the colleges of education corrupting the teaching pool or Board of Education licensure requirements).
However, I do believe school choice is a necessary step in the change management process of fixing the public schools because if parents are given more options about where to send their kids, they will look more critically at what the schools are doing to make the best choice.
When parents look at the schools more critically instead of just accepting what has been handed to them, we win.
So, overall, I believe school choice is a net positive that we should all be fighting for. To do that, you need to learn how to counter the teachers’ union’s most popular argument: School choice takes money away from public education.
When the left argues against school choice, they typically say that it takes away resources from public schools and the real solution is just to throw more money at public schools until they are fixed, just like Katie Hobbs did recently in Arizona.
But more money doesn’t mean better schools. Here’s proof.
Carmel High School in Indiana went viral on Tik Tok with over 7 million views for a tour of their enormous high school this past week.
This high school really does seem to have everything: Several gyms and auditoriums, a stadium, a book store, a jewelry room, a fashion room, indoor pools, numerous gyms, a professional TV and radio studio, a market, a cafe, several cafeterias, etc. It’s like its own city. Any kid would be lucky to go here.
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Looking through the comments, you’ll see that people assume that this school district is very wealthy and that’s how they have these amazing facilities.
However, this school district spends just $9,600 per student according to School Digger:
Let me give you a list of school districts that spend more money per student than they do in Carmel Indiana:
New York City: $24,109 per student
Washington, DC: $22,406 per student
Boston: $22,082 per student
San Francisco: $17,228 per student
Atlanta: $17,112 per student
Seattle: $16,543 per student
Baltimore: $15,168 per student
Fairfax County, VA: $13,991
This is just a handful of the school districts that are spending significantly more money per student than Carmel, Indiana, and getting significantly worse results for their extra investment.
Money is not going to fix the schools because it was not a lack of resources that created the problems in the schools in the first place. It was:
Colleges of education corrupting the teaching pool with far-left indoctrination as required coursework.
State boards of education requiring diversity and equity training to receive and maintain licensure.
School administrators (who are all former teachers and thus have gone through the same college indoctrination programs) investing more heavily in diversity and equity teams, thus wasting district resources on nonsense that is infused in every part of the structure, from policy to curriculum.
If you give schools more money, they are going to invest more heavily in things that do not contribute to educating children because that is all the people running the schools know how to do.
Keep this example in your back pocket every time you go speak at a school board meeting or have an argument with a lefty parent - Carmel High School is proof that you do not need to spend more than $10,000 per student to be able to give kids a quality experience.
What do you think?
How much does your district spend per student? Do you believe that more will give them a better education?
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All true. I’ve been in public education for nearly three decades and part of the union as well. Administration is just as much a part of the problem as the woke left teachers. Traditional liberal and conservative teachers are beside themselves over what’s happening in our schools. I could talk for days about this.
I also wonder if they pay their administration and higher ups a more reasonable amount. It seems that when public schools get money, it all goes to raises for everyone but teachers or it goes to sports. Also, I wonder if they are very particular in what teachers are hired. Most teachers would love to work in a school like this, creating an environment where it's a competitive job to get. My husband and I paid extremely high rent prices for 8 years to put our kids through middle and high school in a place like this, and I don't regret the sacrifice for a moment. These schools are rare and public school is now just a holding center and babysitting gig. Teachers have no authority. It needs to die. Not slowly, immediately.