Well there's always Canada. We can't all be perfect
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https://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://costsofwar.org/article/afghan-civilians
Don't start arguments about moral superiority because, unfortunately, we're all pieces of shit.
I don't see that anyone reasonable would object to addressing legacy costs. If all the energy that has gone into fighting against charters went into efforts to get the State to pickup legacy costs, I think that would have been done years ago.
Your point is valid. Detroit built schools for students that have moved to the suburbs. If these buildings were not fully depreciated, that's a huge legacy cost.
Are building costs in the per-pupil costs? And what are the other 'legacy' costs other than self-imposed legacy such as a bureaucracy much larger than needed? I'd like to understand this better.
According to the Free Press article from which I took the $12,000 annual cost per pupil for the old DPS Catherine Ferguson Academy, building costs were factored in the total.
It's a charter school. They have the option of building a new school or renovating an existing older school. What's your point? This diploma mill is somehow good value for the taxpayer?
From the article, first year enrollment is 400 students first come, first serve. 400 x $12,000 = $4.8M
From the article, 18 students per teacher.
So, let's say you need 22 teachers to micromanage 400 students. Let's assume this micromanager/teacher makes $40K a year [[since the article didn't mention their salaries). That's 22 x $40K = $880,000. That leaves you with $3.92m [[82% of that voucher money) for the building maintenance, other operating expenses, the principal's salary, corporate administration and the charter investor's cut. There's probably a multiplier of 3 or 4 here to deal with each year of 400 students. I'm just inputting the data that was available.
Sure, the cost of building the facility mortgage is paid off on a building built in the 1920s vs. building new with a construction mortgage, but the maintenance and operating costs of an old building is usually more than just building new. Wasn't that the argument for the public school board building a new Cass Tech and demolishing the old one?
It's apples to apples. Bottom line: I still don't see the $12,000 per pupil of taxpayer dollars justification for this school when other schools are less than half that per pupil cost.
Once again - the $12,000 per student figure was for the OLD, DPS owned Catherine Ferguson Academy. It was not sustainable and, of course, may have been unjustifiable when MOST DPS students could be classified as at-risk and the district was spending only $6000 on each of them.
The charter school that took it over may have had a different price per pupil.
Sure, it may not have been sustainable. But don't you want your school districts to be able to experiment, without complaints of unfairness at each and every turn?
Should we spend double on a certain demographic of students? Well, I don't know. But I'd like the school district to be able to try. I support the district's right to try new ideas that might not always involve exactly fair spending per student, nor exactly the same class size or exactly the same methods. We need diversity in our approaches so we can see what works.
Too bad we ran out of cash. Too bad the radical left squashed the charter using the cloak of 'fairness' to all.
Broad generalizations not helpful. What is essentially an ad hominem attack [[ad nationem?) not helpful.
All nations including our own fine country have social problems and failings. To discard Al Jazeera because they are supported by a less than perfect regime is in appropriate. Judge them on their product.
As people, cities, nations we are all imperfect. Let's hope that they continue to develop Al Jazeera as a credible news organization -- even while the nation isn't progressive as dear ABD requires.
Once, the US practiced slavery. Does not dimish Abraham Lincoln, does it? A true progressive would allow for the possibility that Qatar is a society with many diverse points of view -- and that Al Jazerra may be able to be a competent news organization with value even if funded by a flawed regime.
I haven't had a chance to check out today's Detroit News Special Investigation on
Detroit's infant mortality. Also I don't know the infant mortality stats for Catherine
Ferguson graduates. However, MEAP assessments and grades aside, if the care and
instruction Ferguson students received while at the school noticeably reduced the
percentage of premature births, then just monetarily speaking the school was probably
worth it, because premature babies are expensive to care for, and later on are doing
well if they manage to hold their own once they get to school.
Another point to consider is that if Head Start is worth the money invested in it, then
the extra money spent per Ferguson student could be thought of as the basic student
stipend with early Head Start spending for the little one added on. I am in no way an
expert in this. I don't know. Maybe it is as not as effective as having a pregnant
student in a regular school for the $6000 then spending Head Start money on the
young child later. But it is something to look at.
I said nothing of any particular ethnic group. You did, not me. I was obviously referring to the state of Qatar. If there is something I said that is not accurate I will be happy to supply sources on the "absolute monarchy in Qatar" the "system of law in Qatar being religion based" or the "lack of Women's rights in Qatar" just ask and I will post. You were the one that transferred the issue to "Arabs". I think that is really racist to anyone that is of Arab decent to equate them to the above issues.
I agree with Poobert! EMs [[ most of the time ) can be corrupt. EM's also can make very tough sacrifices from education to gov't public services. Most folks don't like it. But if they grants, benefits and solid good goodies from public taxation, you must cut the fat and get of lot of bad apples and spoiled the bunch.
Al Jazeerreau is not that bad. You guys tend to demonize old crooners for no good reason.