Holy Cow 20% of the education budget in Mississippi and Alabama comes from DOE

Title 1 is a real bitch, we have had to pay 65k for a special needs teacher for one damn student many times. (Or they sue you and you pay for a special needs teacher and attorneys fees)

You sound like an abused housewife

We spend the most on the population that will be least likely to contribute.

This says we as a people are very empathetic but perhaps it should change.

Perhaps we should spend more on those in the middle where education and motivation is most impactful.

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A lot of this is due to federal mandates on students with disabilities act and all the Titles. Is Trump getting rid of that too?

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I don't think so. Some of that requires congress to approve.

People have no real idea about how true that is.

We also spend most of our school board time on the biggest problem students. We should just end compulsory school attendance to age 16 and make it 12 max if anything at all.

The kids that didn’t want to be there really should just be let go

The money is being given to the states directly via block grants per EO signed today

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Perhaps we should spend more on those in the middle where education and motivation is most impactful.

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it’s true. The bottom 25% and the disciplinary issue kids need to be pulled from the classroom and put in an alternative track starting in 6th grade.

Not separate classrooms. Separate school entirely. One focused on life skills, communication skills, financial literacy, and by high school directed into some sort of career pathway.

It still would, dumbass. Just without the LCD beurocracy.

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Pretty much true, everyone hates California and Washington but they basically pay for these states.

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big city tax dollars keep rural areas alive too

A kid's success in high school and college comes down to:

95% - how the parents raise them, do they enforce hard work, did they divorce and argue a ton, did they show them how to live life correctly

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5% - how good the high school is they attend.

I know plenty and plenty of kids that are doctors, private equity, and engineers that went to Byrd High School, a public school in 2nd lowest ranked state in education. What was the common factor there? Parents who showed them how to live life right. That's why I think it's asinine when people scramble to get a house in the best school districts or pay outrageous private school tuitions. How you raise your kids is vastly, vastly more important than what kind of high school they attend whether average or good school, doesn't matter. Parenting matters exponentially more to how they turn out academically and professionally successful.

It actually benefits you in Texas to go to a more average public high school as they auto-admit top 8% or so of each senior class. Go to St Johns and you need a 34 ACT type grades to be top 8%.