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

Right well funding is an issue but it's not purely an education issue, it's a problem with our government as a whole. Individuals will protect themselves at the expense of the whole.

To me the way to solve education is not attack it by making sure they use all their money. Yeah, it's grievous that money is getting wasted but that's something we need to approach in a more general way, changing our system of government to protect people from their legislature's self-interests.

To fix the problem of education, first of all it cannot be mandatory and secondly it cannot be standardized. This makes funding even less accountable than it it is currently but it's necessary to evolve our education system from a workforce factory into a means to empower individuals and communities. Like you said people get better education in home schools. I disagree with this because I think a social environment provides a type of learning on its own and home-schooled kids miss out on that peer to peer learning so they always seem sort of awkward. But my point is we can come up with a better education system if remove standards and obligations so students and teachers are free to obtain the knowledge they want to pursue their dreams. However, we cannot do this by ending the public education system and making people rely on private schools. We need to build a ladder and the people on the top of the ladder need to aid in its completion but they tend not to unless they're obligated. It's a conundrum in evolution, those with power don't need to worry about the ways in which we can improve society. In fact its detrimental to them because it means more competition.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

To fix the problem of education, first of all it cannot be mandatory and secondly it cannot be standardized.

That's why the UK has a 1 in 5 illiteracy rate and ranked lower on the HDI than other MEDCs.

Originally Posted by ThePieMan

That's why the UK has a 1 in 5 illiteracy rate and ranked lower on the HDI than other MEDCs.

I don't care, I'm more interested in creating a system where anyone of any economic level can empower themselves with knowledge rather than complete a workload to prove their competency in the workforce. Besides the UK still has standards. Last I checked you still have to pass a test or two and get ranked by grade.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

I don't care, I'm more interested in creating a system where anyone of any economic level can empower themselves with knowledge

And where would they get this knowledge from?