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some funding misused

MASSIVE funding misuse. Most of the funding goes to the school boards, admins, and giving children brain damage playing tackle football.

I have a friend that effectively has a PhD in computer science with a teaching cert, he applied to teach some computer course at a local highschool but they gave it to a football coach instead.

Until we reform education, abolish private schools, and adopt standards from other countries, education in the US is unlikely to ever improve.

It's not enough funding or misused funding that's the problem, it's how the funds are being used that's the problem.

In my former life I worked in education finance and its eye opening.

First... Fuck Pearson, Fuck Mcgraw-Hill, Fuck Houghton Miflin Harcourt. Also fuck the companies that sell testing templates as a consumable goods.

The three biggest issues are big education companies, grant limitations and SPED mandates.

First, big education: They lobby state governments to change curriculum, even when test scores had been great. "We can always do better!" This creates an endless cycle of states updating curriculum that's not broken and schools shelling out huge sums of money for new textbooks or even worse the yearly consumables that seem to have infected every school system. These companies just always need to be selling and will strip every dollar they can from the budget every year.

Second, grant limitations: A large part of a schools budget are federal pass through grants. These can have many limitations about what percent is spent on supplies or resources and highly encourages paid hours for extra learning time. Extra learning time means kids are in school longer... Kids like adults are tapped out after a full day of school. Additional instruction time has extreme diminishing returns.

Third, SPED is Frankenstein's Monster: While SPED is well intentioned and obviously needed, legality and loopholes has caused SPED programs to spiral out of control. Now basically anyone get an IEP if their parents try hard enough and being placed in SPED can grant real educational advantages. Not only can students get breaks on testing times and other performance breaks, being placed in SPED almost always legally creates a burden for that student to be assigned more and or more expensive resources. If a child isn't placed in SPED parents can sue, and parents are winning more and more of these expensive lawsuits, causing districts to place more and more students into SPED. This causes a lopsided budget where a majority of the funds are being diverted to SPED students. Meaning non SPED have less resources, fall behind and then their parents often try to get them an IEP to be placed in SPED. It's a real problem, with no great immediate solution.

The inefficacy of current public education system is a feature not a bug. The rulers want workers just smart enough to measure inches and run the machines to keep the money printers flowing. But not smart enough to realize just how badly they're getting fucked over by a system that sold out and threw them overboard before they were even born. You need high level language and a general understanding of history to comprehend high level abstractions that govern human hierarchy. Ill bet 5$ on which subjects are getting most cuts in public schools.

Skibidi toilet

Furthering the ado

Or concept instead of idea.

A concept is the thinking that underlies the idea, or sometimes kind of an interlocking system of ideas that form an understanding.

And I've run out of anger about utilise instead of use. Don't even have the energy to wri