OT edu
In my state, every public school has to characterize every dollar spent to the state, by the state's defined criteria
Your state must be a place to be envied.
pdq quoted:
"Somehow, we've apparently managed through our development of public education to increase the time it takes to instill less knowledge in kids ..."
And then pdq replied:
You're joking, right? Or maybe you just haven't helped a kid with his Bio homework lately.
If your public schools offer classes that challenge intelligent adults, your public school system is light-years ahead of the offerings that predominate in the public sector in Texas. Check out Texas' ranking nationwide in public education sometime if you want to get an idea of my frame of reference. I have not had the privilege of living where public education was delivered with any widespread competence. The top public school in my area -- a magnet school requiring deliberate application by students and which had the power to decline any student's application -- was miles and miles behind local top private schools (in curriculum, in student attitude, in teachers' apparent median competence) ... if you wanted to see challenging high-school work you really did have to leave the public schools behind, which is eventually what I did.
Just so I know, what state(s) are you describing when you speak of slim administrations and challenging high school studies?
I'm not joking when I say I envy you such a resource. It's a distant dream here, and there's a lot of inertia in keeping the system broken. The latest fad, "charter schools", doesn't seem to have done the trick.
Take care,
--Tex.
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