Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for October 27, 2011
October 26, 2011
October 28, 2011
Transcript:
Phil: How's school, you two? Alix: 34 kids per class, unreliable heat, no real discipline, and a burned-out teacher. Phil: And yet our children are our future. Holly: Just wait until we're in charge of the nursing homes.
More From Stone Soup
ummmm, yeah, simply not true…average student/teacher ratio is 1 teacher for every 15 students, and education spending in this country has tripled over the past 40 years while test scores havent budged…we spend more on education than any other country in total dollars, and more than everyone but Switzerland as a percentage of GDP, but we are told that we dont spend enough on public education…maybe if we started to hold the teachers accountable, and end their free ride, we’d get a better return on our investment…