re: #1 Rightwingconspirator

I’ll dig into the article. I’m curious what the budgets per student are like, for comparisons sake. is it money that is short? Maybe good teachers are hard to attract to small towns? Speculating.

Per pupil spending

Tuition and fees for my daughter in grammar school, about $5,000 to $6,000 per year.

Tuition and fees for my daughter’s HS - about $9,000 to $10,000 per year.

LSU full-time per semester tuition (in-state) - about $3,200 (or $6,400 a year). My daughter has a couple of scholarshipsat fully cover her tuition and fees; which is why we can fund her living in an apartment, costs us about $12,000 a year; so her college is costing us just a bit more than her HS tuition. We hope to get her through with her undergrad degree with NO STUDENT LOANS.

And for anybody wanting to holler about “the rich” and their private school tuition - we are not rich, we have sacrificed and struggled to do this, it was important to us. I’m just so thankful we could give her a genuine educational opportunity, rather than relying on the public schools. It’s devastating, the shape our public schools are in.