what other company leaving California.
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depending on how much more money they can milk out of it.
Nonsense. California spends nearly $30,000 per student on K–12 education. That is roughly twice what countries such as Germany, Finland, and Japan spend per student.
California’s — and, more broadly, America’s — education problems do not come from a lack of funding. They come from an expensive and bloated administrative structure, powerful teachers’ unions, and a system that too often seems more concerned with with brainwashing kids into becomings than with teaching students basic math, English, history, and science.
But that is only the problem on a small scale. On a larger scale, the modern school system increasingly lacks a clear purpose.
Universal mass education was developed largely for an industrial society: to produce a literate, disciplined workforce that could function in factories, offices, and, when necessary, the military. That is no longer the society we live in. Yet the basic structure of the school system has changed remarkably little.
As a result, the system itself is increasingly poorly suited to modern needs. Too much of its energy goes into sustaining its own bureaucracy and protecting the institutions and jobs that already exist rather than asking what students actually need to know in the 21st century.
The result is a system that can spend enormous amounts of money (which we do, and anybody who denies it clearly a product of that very system) while still failing to ensure that many students graduate with even a solid command of basic math, English, history, and other fundamental knowledge.
This is super interesting, and spot on - its a bloated system that <10% actually gets to the classroom to impact students directly. The funding isn't distributed equally either.