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Originally Posted by Weirs guy
I believe that each and every child in the USofA deserves the exact same public education (why is it if I move my kids from town "A" to town "B" they are both not on the same page?), and that school funding, IMHO, should be nationally funded, not locally.
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I think I know what you meant to say, but it didn't really come out that way.
If every child were to have the exact same public education as every other child, then our school systems would be catering to the lowest common denominator. There would have to be either state or national control of all of the schools. That's a formula for disaster because all that statewide control of schools has ever brought is statewide mediocrity in education.
I doubt the school systems (or more specifically, the teachers unions) will ever say they have enough money. No matter how much they have it will never be enough. But as we have seen again and again, it isn't how much money a school system has so much as it's how they spend it.
I've seen plenty of school systems in a number of states with very high per student spending that have very poor performance. That shows that they're spending it unwisely. It's no different here in New Hampshire.