Most Oklahomans support policies that make themselves poorer. The public school system in Oklahoma has long been underfunded, in fact it is so awful that everyone who can half afford it sends their children to private school. With public schools you pay based on the value of your house. In private school you pay for every single child.
Those who can afford only public school are at immediate disadvantage at college or the workplace because of dire undereducation, and it makes itself felt in the bank account.
There is no short-term or medium-term fix in the works. Fixing education takes decades. My suggestion is to pray for another dust bowl.
Those who can afford only public school are at immediate disadvantage at college or the workplace because of dire undereducation, and it makes itself felt in the bank account.
You wish that you did not have to introduce the metric system and metric prefixes in science courses for non-majors, but here at Tumbleweed State you have to. You also can't rely on the kids having basic facility with algebra. Some are stupid, but others are undereducated; we are mopping up after the poor highschool. These are the kids that plump for allied health professions.
Also: we seem to be rolling back the Enlightenment: Enlightenment: "man's emergence from self-incurred immaturity"
Are you talking about all 575 school districts in Oklahoma, or some specific ones that you know about? Do you live there or are you basing all this on a NY Times article or two? As for "pray for another dust bowl", I don't see how that's going to solve anything. Pray for higher oil prices, maybe; that would reverse the budget shortfall and hopefully get the cuts restored.
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Most Oklahomans support policies that make themselves poorer. The public school system in Oklahoma has long been underfunded, in fact it is so awful that everyone who can half afford it sends their children to private school. With public schools you pay based on the value of your house. In private school you pay for every single child.
Those who can afford only public school are at immediate disadvantage at college or the workplace because of dire undereducation, and it makes itself felt in the bank account.
There is no short-term or medium-term fix in the works. Fixing education takes decades. My suggestion is to pray for another dust bowl.
Is there any evidence that better education causes increased earnings? I've seen a lot of articles arguing that it doesn't. Particularly this recent SSC post: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/19/teachers-much-more-than...
You wish that you did not have to introduce the metric system and metric prefixes in science courses for non-majors, but here at Tumbleweed State you have to. You also can't rely on the kids having basic facility with algebra. Some are stupid, but others are undereducated; we are mopping up after the poor highschool. These are the kids that plump for allied health professions.
Also: we seem to be rolling back the Enlightenment: Enlightenment: "man's emergence from self-incurred immaturity"
Are you talking about all 575 school districts in Oklahoma, or some specific ones that you know about? Do you live there or are you basing all this on a NY Times article or two? As for "pray for another dust bowl", I don't see how that's going to solve anything. Pray for higher oil prices, maybe; that would reverse the budget shortfall and hopefully get the cuts restored.