Thread: Where does all the money in schools go to?

Originally Posted by StonedApe

In a school with 1 class each from grades 1-6 that would be an extra 1.2 million dollars. Do the schools where you live look like they spend even a third that much on renovations each year? They don't in my area. I really doubt they spend more than 100,000 each on any of the other things you mentioned. You don't think anything fishy is going on? Either way that's a lot of money being spent on really poor results. We have about 70% high school graduation rate.

You cannot blame the graduation rate on the funding. There are too many elements in play including a general disillusionment with the school system that has been brewing for years now.

Honestly though, I can't account for all the spending you're referring to but I also need to see something that explains the spending so I can see the unaccounted for money. It goes somewhere and that somewhere is recorded. Public funding is not laundered so easily.

Haliburton disagrees with you.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

You cannot blame the graduation rate on the funding. There are too many elements in play including a general disillusionment with the school system that has been brewing for years now.

I didn't. I said that we are spending $10,000 per student and 30% aren't even making it through high school. I think the results are pretty atrocious when you consider the kind of resources that 10,000 a year affords you. That's $120,000 per student. You can do a lot with that much money and what we have is simply pathetic.

Honestly though, I can't account for all the spending you're referring to but I also need to see something that explains the spending so I can see the unaccounted for money. It goes somewhere and that somewhere is recorded. Public funding is not laundered so easily.

I'm not even saying it's laundered, though that's definitely a possibility. I'm thinking it's likely spent in the usual crony capitalist way. Public money being given to favorite companies that really aren't providing the kind of value they're being payed for. But it also seems pretty unlikely that someone somewhere isn't abusing the system and leeching money out of it.