Something to Ponder

Scenario: You live in Washington State, are married and have two children, ages 15 and 9. The state hands you an education voucher worth $20,242 and lets you you make the call on their education for that year.

What do you do? Does you or your spouse stay home and home school the children, do you find a private school (approx. $22,000) or do you hand the voucher back and say “Thanks, but no. You guys are doing a great job!”?

Don’t bother making a choice, you’ll never get the chance in Washington State.

The state spends $10,121 per child per school year in Washington. For this amount of money per child, over 20% of students don’t pass statewide reading standards, almost 40% don’t pass the math standard and over 42% don’t pass the writing standards with 16% of the combined students in the state passing none of the standards.

Yet, when asked if enough money is being spent on schooling, 60% of the people asked in a survey by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation gave a resounding “No”.

When the EFF then told them about the $10,121 per student and then asked them if that was enough in a later question, 61% of the same people say it was either just the right amount or too much money.

Marsha Michaelis writes about this and more over at Sound Politics. She has links to everything I mentioned here and even more in her post. If you want to learn about or get an update on how the national, state and local “Education Associations” are in it for themselves and how they teach the public to want to get milked for more and more money, go take a read.