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[–] pedantichedgehog@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

"Bloated" lmao. I don't think there's a single school district in the US that has sufficient funding

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 28 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

But you see, as he notes himself in the article, the students are under performing. So we should be removing money from the schools to punish them. That will help the grades come up, you see

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago

Unironically the logic used by the same caste of people who keep backing dump trucks of money into the "AI" bonfire when it will never be profitable at its current scale

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 4 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

This is literally the logic used to route public money toward "charter" (private) schools.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 5 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

The irony is that the US actually does spend more per capita on education than pretty much any other nation, but only because we've gutted public funding in favor of private providers and schools.

Same for our healthcare.

Our basic services are insanely expensive because we refuse to socialize them like a normal fucking country.

The result is hypocritical conservative headlines like the above that amount to a "NO SERVICES FUNDING, ONLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE" version of the frisbee dog meme.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

If you need money to compensate for the tax breaks for billionaires and their companies and money to fund weapons and wars for Israel, you gotta save somewhere, duh!