Elizabeth Prann reports on Fox News that according to studies, ‘States spend almost four times more on incarcerating prisoners than educating students.’ What a crock of supreme shit! It’s phony propaganda put out by educators. I just wish it were true.
80 percent of school funding goes to pay teacher, counselor and school administrator salaries. When times were good, we threw more money at the schools every year to raise salaries, increase the number of teachers in order to reduce class sizes and construct dazzling palatial school buildings, all without any improvement in student performance. Granted, some teachers are underpaid, but more are overpaid and many of those have no business teaching in the classroom. They are not educating their students and the teacher unions are making sure they keep their unproductive jobs.
On t he other hand, the money we spend incarcerating criminals serves to protect the public from dangerous predators. While educating students – it’s a shame we’re not doing that - is very important, public safety should always trump education!
SHOCKING STUDIES: STATES SPEND MORE PER INMATE THAN SCHOOL KID!
By Jeff Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
March 15, 2011
Counter-intuitive as it seems, the individual states spend more money incarcerating an inmate 24 hours a day, year-round than they do teaching a kid 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, 9 months per year…less holidays. This MUST be an outrage for, lo and behold, both the DOJ and the Teacher’s Union both did the math!
Missing in the calculations, and reportage, is this reality: ALL states spend more on education than they do on prisons. Here in California, Proposition 98 guaranteed K-Community College funding in perpetuity, carving out a majority of General Fund proceeds for that purpose. But don’t take Paco’s word for it, the Department of Finance’s charts clearly show education gets over half of the General Fund year-in, year out.
Notwithstanding the reality of it all, let us collectively wring our hands over the inmate-to-student per capita spending ratio gap…
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