tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994679863347954941.post8847562925773323913..comments2023-04-15T11:32:36.760-04:00Comments on The Other Athens: CCSD - FY '07 Per Pupil ExpendituresUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994679863347954941.post-52886421995757210152008-02-11T14:36:00.000-05:002008-02-11T14:36:00.000-05:00The usual solutions offered by the educational bur...The usual solutions offered by the educational bureaucracy are 1) to hire more teachers (decrease class size) and 2) to pay the teachers more.<BR/><BR/>The marginal benefit of these approaches is vanishingly small. <BR/>Smaller class sizes help a little, but not much, because one disruptive student can disrupt a class of 15 just as badly as s/he disrupts a class of 20 or 25. And systems like ACC have a much greater ratio than 1:15 of disruptive students. It's more like 1:1. <BR/><BR/>Likewise, better qualified teachers will stick around longer if they are paid more, but they will still be teaching the required cookbook curriculum in a classroom that is disrupted by juvenile delinquents. <BR/><BR/>Until and unless we get real school choice I won't be voting a single penny more for k-12 education. I'm already paying school taxes and private school tuition and that's more than I should be doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com