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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't you all Google how much it costs to educate a student in DCPS for a year and try to make sense of those $ against the outcomes?  Seems like a system due for a shake up to me. [/quote]

Much of that money is privatized; i.e., the people who work with children and have the most training in education (teachers) have very little say on where that money goes. As a brief example, I'm a preschool teacher. Every classroom in my building has Promethean boards, but starting wages for assistant teachers are about $1 above minimum wage. As a result, assistants are frequently absent. Substitute assistants are paid just as badly, so when an assistant is gone, no one shows up for the day. We then either end up teaching up to 20 kids on our own (which is against the law but we do it anyway) or picking off students above 10, Hunger Games style, to go to other classrooms. We spend tens of thousands of dollars per student, but it's not going toward making healthy classroom or work environments.[/quote]

This is the opposite of privatized as privatized implies a competition and a meritocracy. This is an unbelievably frustrating situation for those closest to the kids to be in. It's time to shine some light on this and if Betsy DeVos does nothing else than expose it and show parents the questions they should be asking, and alternatives they may have, it's a win for me[/quote]

Does DCPS not have a program budget sheet? Where are the parents to advocate for smarter funding? DCPS has always been known for having reasonable class sizes. When did this change? Did the charter schools cause any of this inefficiency? Out here in the burbs we know where just about every dollar goes. It is all public information. And in our schools all promethean boards are paid for by the PTA.[/quote]

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