In a highlighted post over at the Kos Kiddie Farm, diarrheaist “Gorette” blathers on and on about how “Apathetic America Abandons Its Youth”.
But if you have an eye for facts, you will see that while she bitches over and over, continuing in the poll she set up and in the comments, about how ‘strapped for cash’ the schools are nationwide; she then foolishly goes on to use graduation figures from the Washington DC School District, where they spend more per student than 99% of the rest of the nation.
So, if unlike “Gorette”, you are able to follow a line of logic, you will be able to tell that the time she spent writing the entire ‘diary’ was a waste of time because her theory is false: More money does not equal a better education or higher graduation rates.
We folks on the right have figured this out already. But it is still somewhat entertaining to watch them learn.
I remember a great stat from one of Larry Elder’s books.
The LA school district was spending something like $12,500 per student, per year.
The cost of tuition at schools run by the archdiocese of Los Angeles was somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,000.
Which do you think had a higher HS graduation and college acceptance rate?
California has been the laboratory for that money-test for the past umpteen years, and it continues to fail the test no matter how high they heap the money.
The evidence observed shows money in Education being siphoned by the Teachers Union and the Education bureaucracy. Money in the system has little or nothing to do with the kids in school, except that they are primarily bio-vouchers, used to extract State funds for the Edu-Machine.
DIRTCRASHR – do you mind if I utilize some of your words (because they are so true and you said it very well) the next time our local whiners start wanting more of my $$$$ to throw down their toilets?