Yes. Those greedy schools. Why do teachers get caviar and sports cars while students must pay $3 for a sub par meal? With all the profits big school makes- they certainly can cut some slack. Or why not just cut back on their lavish supplies budget or all the cutting edge equipment and classes kids don’t need that schools just have sitting collecting dust?
No. Kids should not have to suffer because adults can’t get their acts right. Yes. Kids should be provided a meal as part of their school day. Nothing is free. Someone pays. Adults like this will say kids shouldn’t have to pay- but Melissa isn’t offering to pay the kid back or buy all those kids lunch daily. Any problem you see and aren’t working to fix is a problem you are ok living with.
I'd like to see school funding actually go to schools. There's no reason for an administrator in a separate office to drive a 2021 BMW, to their new lacquered hardwood desks and engraved iMac pros replaced every year, while students are fed shit that makes veggie crumble MREs look good, being prohibited from brown bagging, only to sit a desk older than grandma just to read a history book describing the Mujahedeen's continuing heroic resistance against Soviet oppressors.
Lmao. The Mujahideen line got me. Yeah. It would be nice if perhaps in many places- eat marked money went to things it was supposed to. I wonder often about experimental schooling. I wonder for example if kids need to go to school every day- or if there might be some ways to mitigate costs of schooling while keeping or improving quality. From an efficiency standpoint school would work much better if it was more specialized- but that is a scary thought where you start deciding and limiting what a kid can do starting at a very early age. Still though- I wonder if more focused education couldn’t cut costs and improve what kids are able to take away.
Better focus would be ideal, but it means cutting out the "one size fits none" thing that we've been doing for over a century. It's easier to hit your target when your aperture is small. Not aiming for the chest, but rather at a button on the target's shirt, if that makes sense.
I'd start by pushing DOE powers and responsibilities down to state levels at the largest, maybe in regional pacts. Make it so that the guys making these decisions are the guys who work near and know the people and the area, and are accountable to the people of their state, rather than some bureaucrats in Washington.
And I don't like the "Only college" pipelines either. I'd push trades, apprenticeships, military, and other viable routes as respectable alternatives to university.
I agree 100%. Is actually like to see a comprehensive program that also involves military reform- for how much our society relies on the military is like to see us get to where service is more competitive for more people with providing a long term lifestyle comparable to private sector work- and where it can also serve as a better transition to private sector or other government work- and not just for career officers and dedicated NCO’s.
Trades are another area that need pushed- I’d like to see standards institutions (hopefully without corruption etc...) and a general push for quality work over price. There’s a philosophy I’m very fond of that’s a broader social change- but it’s basically that whatever work a person does should be a skill. It should be more about the fact you are master at what you do than what it is you do- we NEED janitors and retail workers and construction workers and so on. For filling those roles in society we shouldn’t hold someone as “lower” but instead- should encourage people to do the best at whatever they are doing. Working hard is workin hard- and I’d like to see us care more for the quality of people’s work wether it’s taking orders and flipping burgers or heart surgery.
In the US if a school is in a low enough socioeconomic area the school will typically have lunch and breakfast free for students, and if you’re a low income student not in those schools you can apply for the free lunch. It’s not a perfect system by far, but for a decent part we’re not letting kids starve. I have been in both positions. I was the poor kid in a school where lunch was at least 8$ a day so I’d go without (but that lunch was amazing! It was real food) and I’ve been in the school where the food is free and it was ok (the food was rotten most days and several rats were seen hanging out in the active kitchen) I’d say neither option is sustainable. We can’t let kids starve cause parents can’t afford the school’s lunch (but why do you have a child you can’t afford to feed even one meal at all?) and we can’t be expecting the poor to eat rats like the black plague days
I'd start by pushing DOE powers and responsibilities down to state levels at the largest, maybe in regional pacts. Make it so that the guys making these decisions are the guys who work near and know the people and the area, and are accountable to the people of their state, rather than some bureaucrats in Washington.