Public school districts in the United States receive billions of taxpayer dollars in state and federal funding every year to pay for teacher salaries, school bus transportation, building maintenance, counseling services, and more. Here’s a dollar-by-dollar breakdown of how schools spend funding for each school year:
- $100,000: Installation of bleacher seating in back of overflowing classrooms
- $300: Age-appropriate movies superficially related to textbook curriculum
- $450,000: Getting Twyla Tharp to choreograph high school’s production of Anything Goes
- $1,000: Annual classroom globe updating
- $8 million: Workforce to carve compartments into cafeteria trays
- $300: Vintage crackling sound for PA systems
- $1.2 million: Construction of observation decks for parents to watch students learn
- $50,000: Annual salary of employee who periodically makes sure students and teachers in portables are still alive
- $2,000: DuPont Research & Development grant to innovate better elbow macaroni glue
- $450/hr: Lawyer who will make Coach Henderson situation all go away
- $500,000: Classroom assistants for intellectually challenged teachers
- $800: Pink slips
Coach Henderson and “classroom assistants”. Hilarious.
I’ve probably mentioned it before, but per-student K-12 spending in Minneapolis Public Schools is ~ $23,000. (~ $730 mil / 32k students). And that takes into the average kindergarten through 8th grade (which is relatively cheap to provide). Average Catholic school budget per kid is about $7k for elementary student and $12k for high school. of course, half of the students there pay much less than the sticker price and are subsidized by donors. What do you get for $23,000? 50% minority dropout rate and the same “education gap” that you get everywhere else (although DC’s is the worst). So if you ever hear that what schools need is “more resources” (why can’t they just say “more money”?) tell them it’s been tried and it didn’t work. Of course, we all knew that. Judging by the evidence, one could almost say that school performance is inversely related to school funding. Our moron governor (Governor Mumbles) is running for re-election by claiming that his opponent wanted to cut school funding. Mumbles will probably win handily. We never should have passed the 19th Amendment.
The negro boy comes home from school, and tells his dad: “Hey dad we had gym class today and we took showers.”
Dad says: “That’s good.”
The boy continues: “Well I looked around the locker room, and you know what? I have the biggest dick in the class.”
Dad say: “That’s very nice son – but you have to remember you’re 27 years old.”
Minneapolis is planning to spend even more to “close the achievement gap” None of liberals want’s to admit that statistically negroes are less intelligent.