Educational Issues

Big increases in educational spending by the government over the past few years has not yielded a better educational product. For example, one school district spent almost $16,000 per student, three times more than a different district, and yet the students had similar test scores. Obviously money cannot buy wisdom. Instead of improving education, government spending has bought more teachers and professional staff. In Texas during the 2010-2011 school year, nearly 5 million students attended, up 19 percent from 2000-2001. The number of classroom teachers in the state's public schools rose 23 percent during the same period. Increased spending on education has not improved average student achievement and behavioral problems have also worsened. Many conservatives blame these issues on corrupt teachers, administrator organizations, colleges of education, etc. This is true to an extent, however, fixing schools depends of fixing families first. Many kids are distracted by their dysfunctional families and find it too hard to concentrate and work hard academically. An Educational Testing Service report concluded that educational progress was unlikely apart from “increasing marriage rates and getting gathers back into the business of nurturing children.”

Source: World Magazine