not a peep: study claims kansas schools seeing diminishing returns from increased funding
Somebody call Alan Rupe. And while they’re at it, could that someone call a journalist in this state? It is utterly impossible that there isn’t at least one who saw this, especially after the news school funding made a couple of years ago.
[inherited from: Bob Weeks, bless his heart. I think it's less an embarrassment to Sebelius than it is further proof that no matter how much wishing makes it not so, the same economic patterns in a free society -- or at least the thing that we live in that we're calling a "free society" these days -- that hold for other goods and services must hold for education as well.
I mean, we could just take money from others1. We can print more up2. But then that's something less than a free society, isn't it?]
12.23.2008 @ 22:32
You’ll never get an advocate of more money for education to admit that it’s really about more money; it’s always that money is a symbol of love, and since we love our children, the amount of money we spend on education is a direct testimony to the extent to which we love them*. More love, more love, all you need is love**.
See, education is different from capitalism. It’s not about profit or greed or having to make choices based on fiscal limitations. Because we love the children infinitely, the answer to how much we should spend to educate them is not really based on capitalistic concepts like “results.” The answer is simply that we must spend more.
* Though unlike plain old Christmas, the kiddos aren’t the ones making the haul.
** And summers off.