Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 9 months ago-
The school is funded already through taxpayers. The fact that “the children are working to fund the school” is an acceptable line of logic is already dystopian.
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Traditionally, children do fundraisers to fund extracurricular activities, like a field trip. If the school is taking that money to add to their budget, that’s crossing the line into exploiting kids’ labor for money.
Enk1@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Where do you live that public schools are properly funded by taxes? American schools are embarrassingly underfunded, and teachers are tragically underpaid and typically have to spend their own money to buy supplies for their students.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The fact that public schools used to be properly funded by taxes and aren’t any longer is part of the dystopia. Do you think I’m defending the current system?
rosymind@leminal.space 9 months ago
usafacts.org/topics/education/
I was surprised to find out how much the U.S. actually does spend on education, given how shitty it is. Idk where the money is going, but it’s definitely funded
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Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I’m not sure if I’m reading the data wrong or what, but that usafacts.org says 35% of people 25 or older have at least a bachelors degree. When I checked the census data, it says only 27.4% have that…
rosymind@leminal.space 9 months ago
Link doesn’t work for me, but I’ll look it up
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The US spends the second most per student in the world.
weforum.org/…/education-spending-highest-school-b…
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Part of this comes from the fact that most public schools are funded from local property taxes, so naturally wealthier residents have better public schools due to better funding as they naturally pay more in taxes
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Imagine if they spent anything on teachers