How would you fund education if you were in the position ( Archived) (58)

i know bored in school

missed about 130 days my last 2 years and grad. with decent grades

and also helped develope the rescue squad program in the town i lived in my senior year

I would charge the parents, I beleive in this state each child is worth about $7,000 to the schol disrtict. I would bill their parents. If we don't need solidarity in the form unions to protect our wages, or socialized medicine to care for our citizens, why should I pay for somebody else' kid's education.


Two kids would cost $14,000 a year, to be paid in advance.

If you don't pay, they don't go. If you can't afford it?

That's just not my problem.

Re-direct military funding, and make certain that it actually goes into the schools with checks & balances on many different levels.

It is an ENORMOUS waste of time!

And I recently heard that several places are considering making school days even longer!

I wouldn't even have a problem with that if they were using the time efficiently, but it's so lame there isn't any words to describe it!

It geared toward completely idiots I think. And the smart people have to suffer through it. They really should have a better way of dividing people up into more tailored programs.

Instead of making longer hours I'd rather see shorter hours with more teachers focusing on less students at a time.

I know we can never get it down to one-on-one mentoring. But if it was made more efficient it could be gotten down to something like no more than 10 students per teacher, and that could be one-on-one throughout the day at various times if the teachers are smart.

This is a huge sore spot with me. Our educators need to be educated on how to educate!

Not so much the teachers, but the administration!

Ocee wrote:
"If you don't pay, they don't go. If you can't afford it?

That's just not my problem."

Oh, but it would be your problem soon enough.

Trust me.

I’m all for education.

I only wish it could be done intelligently and efficiently and that they didn’t waste people’s time taking hours and hours to teach useless crap.

We really need to change the critera for what we consider to be a "high school" education.

A model for education...supporting Ocee's thoughts to a degree...

My children went to a school for just under a year that was self funded, by the parents, interested citizens, local business owners and the students themselves.

This school was for children 5-12 years of age.

The land, and deed to the land, was donated by a private owner. The buildings are purchased as they become available, and money is there. (Old houses, and buildings, due for demolition, and are moved onto the school site and renovated.)

The school works on the co-operative model, and every person involved in the school is part of a work-sharing co-operative, (The LETS Scheme). Fees were asked for, and also labour hours had to be committed to as well. A pool of resources were available, both with talents, and knowledge. the children owned their school, and had more input into what happened there, than the adults.

The curriculum was within the Department of Education boundaries, and yet was created by the children, with an overseer body of educators and citizens. Many of these children test way higher than the State averages, in all areas, and in all ages.

Outside funding came in the way of the school body working within festivals, creating and producing products, including fresh food.

The children decided they wanted edible gardens ten years ago, and actively plant, forage, and nurture their food gardens. Philosophies are accepted, and differing backgrounds accepted as normal, within the whole school. Their motto is "One people, One world"

I was being sarcastic...

I don't have to trust you, I know you're right.

It would soon become many people's problem,

just as the other two issues I mentioned have.



Non-sarcastic answer...

I would handle it with a federal tax, to take the regionalism out of it. Create to true level playing field, unlike our current system wherein more affluent areas have a large budget per student.





Sidenote...
I am also in favor of an import tax. I would base it on a standard of living index. If you want to import something here, you need to be paying a living wage were you produced it. If your not, we would tax your import by an amount as to make them an equal cost to the consumer, as the products of companies that do pay fairly. Our corporations would benefit from the level playing feild, and the revenue from the taxes could be used to help fund our social programs.

We had a huge tax fraud in NH. It's STILL in courts. Large sums of tax money for schools gone!

Another thing, is they pass off parenting, and other issues onto teachers. I know of a collage in NH that have a mediocre teacher cert/license classes. Anyone can get them. Even without the experience, or teaching experience per collage graduate. If you went to collage, you can take courses and be a teacher.