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by Boo_bear on May 31st, 2011

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Should the government really be cutting education costs, when the people that are loosing their education will be in charge soon?

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  • by truthWarrior on May 31st, 2011

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    You can cut costs without cutting quality.

    Huge amounts of money are spent on unnecessary bureaucracy. They could save so much by cutting red tape.

    Modern education is "outcome based". The government sets a very large number of learning outcomes/ goals. The teacher has to assess whether each student has achieved each outcome and constantly reassess to measure improvement. Teachers now spend more time assessing than teaching.

    Education has moved away from being examination centred to more coursework based programs. Again this type of course requires much more marking and bureaucracy.

    A lot of education is no longer asset based. In the U.K. the government sometimes hires a private contractor to build a school and pays them rent for ever to operate a school there. This saves money initially but will be far more expensive over the long term. It's a poverty strategy.

    Governments shouldn't spend so much money on computers. All the kids learn computer skills just fine on their own at home. Computers belong in computer science classes only.

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  • by Sodapop on May 31st, 2011
    voted: No.

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    We aren't animals. The lack of resources doesn't diminish the necessity for a good and honest education.

    I highly doubt the majority of politicians are of the common, working class. There are elite schools these *coooooool* people arise from. Education should be free in this country. College should be free.

    It isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.. and the fact that tuition is so high is one of the reasons our society is dragging behind Europe's... Corralling students into classrooms from k-12th grade is another factor, of course.

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  • by Just Me on May 31st, 2011
    voted: Yes.

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    This isn't about funding. It's about respinsible spending. The government does not spend money properly and schools suffer as a result. The money we are taxed for schools often never finds its way tothe schools it was meant to provide for.

    Schools should be able to dictate funding with their own local communities and not the Federal government. The government just over spends what they take in and it never goes where it is needed. Politicians should not decide what is best for local schools. Schools and their communities should decide that.

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