$200,000 Teacher Pay with two 3.5 hours School Days - 50% building cut
Parents buy public, private, or home schooling with ESA's.
Learning is for a lifetime.
Learning is the responsibility of the individual first, family second, and society last.
State education dollars must follow the student and not the institution.
Each student must have an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) in which the FULL $13,000 ed money is deposited for real school choice.
Parents spend their child's ESA account to choose a Public, Private, or Home School for their child.
Utah should adopt Arizona's Education Scholarship Account (ESA's) for families and education reform. There will never be meaningful Utah education reform unless the flow of money is re-directed to the Parents to spend on Public, Private or Home School.
Utah spends about $13,000 per student for 990 hours of elementary schooling ($12.12/hr per student), and 900 hours for at $13.33/hr/ Junior High student. Jr. High is 5.2 hours teaching time/day. (6.2 hours less 30 min cave time, and 30 minute lunch less early out Wednesdays day) . High School is about the same as Jr. High with 900 hours at $13/hr/student.
Lagoon Day costs Alpine School District $1.3 million. Over 30 years, that's $39 million for Lagoon Day when we hear teachers can't buy paper, pencils, and tape. Take the ASD $940,000,000 budget divide by 4 to isolate the High School portion and divide by 180 days of education cost for 1 day. 1 day of High School as ASD costs $1.3 million.
If we direct deposit that $13,000 into each student's ESA account for the parent to spend on education services from Public Schools, Private Schools, or Home School, we will have meaningful education reform. Where and how to best educate a child is educated is the parent's business.
What does a parent get for the $169,000 the State pays to educate one child? Not much. Some Basic math. Some basic reading and writing. After 12 years, a student is hard pressed to write a one page paper (300 words strung together), read at a 12th grade level, and do much more than elementary math. If you have 4 children, that's $676,000 is taken from someone and spent for your child's institution's benefit. What kind of education could you buy for your children with $676,000 tax free?
Is it really Public Education or Public Daycare? Schools want quite often medicated students over teaching students how to learn. "Creativity is inelegance having fun" and "Intelligent people solve problems. Geniuses prevent them" Albert Einstein
"Why do we lend money we don't have to kids that can't pay it back to get jobs that don't exist anymore?" Mike Rowe Dirty Jobs