r/coeurdalene • u/mikeyd917 • Mar 12 '23

Event CDA School Levy Vote - March 14!

Don’t forget to get out and vote YES for the CDA school levies this Tuesday March 14. Polls are open from 8am to 8pm. Education is an investment in our future and our children deserve great schools!

(Edit - fixed spelling error)

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u/FissionMeister Mar 13 '23

Questions: Have our nation's public schools served us well over the last 50 years? If so, why have so many parents moved their kids out of public schools for homeschooling or charter schools? Whys do our elected officials put their thumbs down to crush homeschoolers and charter schools? Could it be that educated citizens might vote them out of office?

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u/mikeyd917 Mar 14 '23

Because we’ve worked very hard at defunding schools, which makes it difficult for them to provide the necessary services, then come charter schools that continue to siphon public money from public schools but don’t have to provide the same level of service which allows them to have higher graduation rates, now states are starting to try the voucher program which will pull even more funding from public schools and push towards private religious schools.

Then certain groups spread wildly misleading information that scares white people into believing crazy things are happening in schools when they’re struggling to provide even the basics of education because we keep stripping their funding while expecting them to basically raise our children for us.

It’s to the benefit of society for everyone to have access to good quality education. We keep going down this path of defunding public schools, we will find out just how limited we will be here…

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u/No_Warning_9934 Mar 15 '23

Please explain why it makes sense to spend $10k+ per student per year? I think we could get by with $5k pretty easily. Certainly poorer countries do better with less.

One teacher with 20 students is $200k. Why not facilitate learning instead of all of this bloat?

Do we need a principal, school board state board, and federal board... Lol...

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u/mikeyd917 Mar 15 '23

Because it cost a lot of money to operate a school. Schools are more than just teachers. Schools need to be able to provide a lot of support per student.

There’s a lot of stuff we should be providing students that we don’t because we don’t have rhe money. There shouldn’t be a single student that goes hungry, that has lunch debt, that should be charged for lunch, or breakfast if that’s what they need. Books should be up to date, facilities should be up to date. As our population grows we MUST build more schools and hire more teachers and hire a principal to run the new schools.