Quite so. However, the cost per child calculation is a shell game. I have read more per student, much more, and also less, and it varies from school to school. They shuffle money around and into different categories that are an expense to school district but not necessarily calculated as direct teaching per pupil costs. You know, like for example, how bout that billions they just got to upgrade schools so that they would be safe for kids to return. That's fed funny money and so things like that get buried because it undermines the teachers union demand for more and more. Y'all know the lefty script these days. A teacher is supposed to say "hey, I am buying supplies out of my own pocket." Yup that has become a mantra. A lefty teacher friend layed that one on me a couple times after I had heard it five times that week already and I told him that he was buying supplies out of his own pocket because the union had that money. I could pretty much hear his anal sphincter gland slam shut when I said that.
Look. It's like dis. Conservatives and libs are caught in a time warp on this educational freedom thing. They think everything is about hill billy christians in west virginia wanting to home school for evangelical reasons or whatever the stereotype is. Nope. Just for the reasons you VZ cited there are dollars flying around and people want choice. It is not about homeschooling although that could be an option. The newer model is presented in terms of neighborhood school pods or micro-schools where there can be cross fertilization and resources shared across micro-schools where like-mindedness creates such opportunities.
The language game gets the lefties all juiced up. If you mention "vouchers" and community or home school they start to melt down. But if you come it from another angle and say "I think that every parent should be allocated some funds so help set up local Montessori schools, then they love your arse. Even frigging Teddy Kennedy came out in favor of school choice- but later dialed it back when it was not part of the dnc platform.
Not to forget too. As I tell the lefties just before they begin to punch me in the face "we should have a public option too, just like y'all want for Obamacare." womp, womp, womp.
This is from 2019 and I already said at length that they use ten different ways to calculate so please don't bother to present some different numbers. I covered that. Also don't bother to point out to me that lots of other schools have similar amounts. BECAUSE LOTS OF OTHER SCHOOLS ACTUALLY HAVE RESULTS TOO. CHICAGO IS FAILING SCHOOL SYSTEM. Also dont bother to point out that the lower cost school here is also a chicago public school. That just makes my point. More choice is good. Also I need to see the data on how they are learning at the lower cost school. Maybe they are doing very well and deserve more funding versus the dud schools. Or maybe the city is cheaping out on them and the cost is low but so are the education services. Don't know. It all needs to be outcome based and measured. That will actually help many micro-schools. And some it will hurt. Fine. Giddy-up.
The Chicago Public School spends $40,822 per child at Stock, which is tops in the state for public money spent per pupil.
Contrast that with another Chicago public school, the Asian Human Services — Passages Charter, which spends just $3,475 per student — sixth lowest for all schools in the state of Illinois.
https://chronicleillinois.com/gover...lassroom-spending-in-illinois-public-schools/
