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> Hundred percent agree on lack of resources, of course.

My state provides about $7,000 per public school student (I don't know if this is per student actually enrolled or student in the district, even if the student goes to a private school). That means that a classroom of 30 students is worth $210,000. There is absolutely no way that $210,000 is an insufficient amount of resources to educate 30 K-12 students. That's 3½ times U.S. median income — easily enough to teach a year's worth of material.

The problem with public schooling is structural, not resources.



Food is subsidized, so let's say about $100/month/kid is going to help pay for their school lunch. There's $36,000 a year gone.

Arts classes requires materials. Instruments for band. Mopping the classrooms. Maintenance for desks.

Some of those kids go to detention, so now some teachers get paid overtime to sit with them.

The football team takes the bus to go somewhere.

The library buys some new books. Updates the computers.

There's a lot of stuff going on, it's not just the teacher.




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