States Spend 3x more on Prisoners than they do on Students

[kdslittlebro]

That and teachers are criminally underpaid for such a hard job.

It's hard to imagine a teacher being inspired to do a good job earning what I made doing warehouse work.

That’s part of the problem also for sure, which is also a byproduct of too many resources allocated to higher ups, and too many higher ups.

Add that they have to buy a lot of their own classroom supplies too, and they get screwed so much.

My grandma’s a retired teacher still teaching, so I’ve seen it firsthand my whole life

 

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no, just that we should be getting significantly better results for what we're spending. the cost to keep an inmate incarcerated is never going to be equal or less than it costs to educate students. think how horrid (more so than now) the conditions would be in prison if they only spent $12.8k to house and feed inmates (and if they're lucky enough, programs to better themselves). this isn't a comparison about how much total we spend on education vs incarceration. it's about the average spent on the individual, student or prisoner. $12.8k per student is more than enough to get great results. $33k isn't an obscene amount to spend per prisoner. we should be striving for less prisoners, not less spent on them while they are incarcerated.

Understand completely. I though you meant the other way.

 

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Honestly, when it comes to education, parents and environment have more impact on children outcome than teachers. Teachers can only handle 1/3 of the problem. Parents and the environment take the other 2/3.

America needs to wake up. The government needs to stop fukking around and get on the ball with Pre K and helping parents with children between kids 0 to 5.

The studies and the data on this are overwhelming! Can shape a kids destiny between those years.

 

[eastside313]

What exactly is included in that student spending?

 

[Wild self]

Cut down the military spending and invest it on paying teachers triple their salary. Problem solved.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Must be talking about Louisiana

 

[eXodus]

Also there are too many 100-or-less-student districts paying superintendents 6 figures. Not saying pack kids into schools/classrooms, but there should be some refiguring when it comes to districts. At least from the states I’ve been in.

shyt there’s a principal in the school district I work with that makes $155,202 overseeing an elementary school of 113 students.

 

[OfTheCross]

That and teachers are criminally underpaid for such a hard job.

It's hard to imagine a teacher being inspired to do a good job earning what I made doing warehouse work.

I disagree cause they usually have great benefits and summers off