Re: here's something you don't see very often in San Francisco...

In article <3Uy0g.47899$_S7.20142@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Hello Frank,


Time to elect some new politicians into office, and certainly not the
tax'em kind of guys.

The spending goes for the taxing. You have to know/realize on what the
money is spend. As long as most of the money is well spend, tax is not
a real burden. Admit it ;)


And that's just the problem. One example out of hundreds: The per pupil
spending in California schools is well above $7,000/year.

California is 23rd with $7500 per pupil cost. VT is 6th at $9600
each.

http://www.epodunk.com/top10/per_pupil/index.html

The unions and
others are constantly whining for more money, it's never enough. Then
someone did the math. $7,000 time 30 for a classroom is $210,000. The
teacher's salary with burden costs is about $50,000 on average, or let's
say $60,000. The reporter then asked "What happened to the remaining
$150,000? "Ahm, ahem, well, err, um, ...." Sure, some has to be spent on
buildings and stuff but by far not this much. Nobody really seems to know.

It's not 30 students per classroom. Here it's 11.6 per classroom
teacher. Add a 1/2 of an assistant and another 1/4 "non-classroom
teacher" per classroom.

--
Keith
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