With a captive audience, guaranteed revenue, and increased funding for poor performance, public schools have little incentive to ensure any child learns.
There’s an enormous disconnect between what parents think public schools do and what the system actually produces. People believe schools exist to educate kids.
They don’t.
Like so many other systems run by the government, public schools exist to perpetuate themselves and increase their power. They do this by employing people who will vote as a bloc to ensure their continued employment and, thus, the system’s growth.
I experienced twenty years of relentless and purposeful mission creep as a teacher in three large suburban school districts in densely-populated California metros.
The California Department of Education says it spent $16,881 per pupil
in the 2020-21 school year, 282% more than the $6,036 they spent per student in 2000.1
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Madison Schools: More $, No Accountability
The taxpayer funded Madison School District long used Reading Recovery…
The data clearly indicate that being able to read is not a requirement for graduation at (Madison) East, especially if you are black or Hispanic”
My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results
2017: West High Reading Interventionist Teacher’s Remarks to the School Board on Madison’s Disastrous Reading Results
Madison’s taxpayer supported K-12 school district, despite spending far more than most, has long tolerated disastrous reading results.
“An emphasis on adult employment”
Wisconsin Public Policy Forum Madison School District Report[PDF]
WEAC: $1.57 million for Four Wisconsin Senators
Friday Afternoon Veto: Governor Evers Rejects AB446/SB454; an effort to address our long term, disastrous reading results
Booked, but can’t read (Madison): functional literacy, National citizenship and the new face of Dred Scott in the age of mass incarceration.
When A Stands for Average: Students at the UW-Madison School of Education Receive Sky-High Grades. How Smart is That?
