Originally posted by WiLL
your outlook is like mine. more money needs to be put into education.
ive been in the non-profit org for 2 years. ive seen what great changes it has made. its really depressing to see funding getting cut left and right.
I agree. Better education. However, that doesn't necessarily mean more money. The current way we spend our educational dollars is assinine. Basically if you don't spend it you don't get it the following year. That's ludicrous.
We need to educate the lower class, and offer paid-for high-end classes for the Super-Smart, to make them excel and promote growth in our country and in the world... but that's where the money should go.
It doesn't need to go to putting a computer on every kids lap. A full-sized desk, or even smaller class-sizes. It needs to go to the teachers pockets, so they can give the tools to each individual student as they see fit.
There's no way to make a broad generalization of a student-body and say what they need or don't need. Each student is different, and no person is better to tell what that student needs, than the teacher who is in front of them every day.