As someone who just finished college with a heck of a lot of out of state folks, it's bad. We graduate students at the high end with significantly less college prep courses, with worse grades from mid level schools, and have fairly bad rates of graduation at the struggling ones. We're chronically short on teachers, have an out of date robin hood system, and have a nasty split of haves and have nots.

Texas has one of the worst education systems in the nation and the only reason the colleges are any good is because the old boy system pumps billions into them because of the football programs.

The colleges that are destroying young people's lives will hate this message. I love it!

School PE doesn’t impact childhood obesity.

Public schools provide WAY more than private schools do, and takes our money further. Their mandate to educate EVERYONE, no matter location or background, both produces market inefficiencies by doing things that for-profit businesses wouldn't make a profit on, and also reaps efficiencies that those same for-profit businesses wouldn't by larger economies of scale and centralized planning. Also, private schools produce equal or worse outcomes in terms of test scores and student achievement post-graduation than most public schools, not that private schools are less funded, but that they do less with more than public schools due to standards that public schools have to achieve. There are pros and cons to either, but it is not fair to rural citizens to have their dollars go to a voucher system that their children will never use because there is not a business incentive to create a private school out in the middle of nowhere. My sister, mother, and great grandfather are/were all teachers here in Texas and I hate this voucher program being shoved down our throats. I'm a Christian, and providing equal access to good public schooling to anyone willing to attend and being a part of that process with everyone of all backgrounds is core to our faith. I am really discouraged by the choices of my fellow brethren, citizens, and our state authorities in pursuing this detrimental voucher program that will only benefit owners of private schools.

@@91thewatcher23 Perhaps on some level. But what are public schools providing other than basic education? There's no shortage of public schools - Baltimore, Chicago, NY, etc. where kids are graduating without being able to read or do basic math. And that's after a tremendous amount of money was spent per student. I still don't think more money is the answer.

@@XD9scCCcheck yourself, those respective states have some of the best public education compared to Texas and other southern states.

@@Backburner1118 Maybe. But that's little consolation for the kids in the Chicago, Baltimore, and NY public school systems.

⁠@@XD9scCCidk man, the worst school districts seem to be rural. I don’t see why you’re trying to imply cities are worse overall.

Teacher retirement in Texas averages $43,000 per year. In California it's $50,000 per year.

That is wrong.

@@kelleysmith7345 Please, tell us why. How is education better under socialism than it would be under freedom and free enterprise?

@@WildBill99x It’s not my responsibility to educate you. The founders knew what education could do and everyone deserves a good education - that can’t be done in unaccountable private institutions.

@@WildBill99x Also you seem to not understand who has to abide by the constitution and who does not.

@@WildBill99x Tell you why. If you don’t know I’m not wasting my energy to tell you. I’m done dealing with fools and idiots.

Everyone benefits from a population that has been well educated. They tend to go onto higher paying jobs, paying more taxes, and feeding the economy at a higher level. So everyone needs to be investing in the future by investing in our public schools.

What about the fact that the vast majority of us were educated in public schools? We all benefit from having high quality education provided free to all kids.

@@seh0041 Have you seen ISD footage of parents complaining that the education is not quality for their "brats" (actual word used by teachers teaching in the school, I of course would say your angels, right). I agree free education, paid for by those that made them - DNA testing please.

@@AskDrBGood so let's go there, but it's 2024 and kids don't want a face-2-face institution anymore (I should know I am an educator of many years); just like all jobs many things are being transitioned to AI or computer assisted education systems. Don't worry, they will do fine, Millenials and Gen Z already think they know everything anyways.

@@AskDrBGood let’s reorient this thought of yours - everyone benefits by clean water, free public utilities & shelter. Make that happen and people who want to seek education will still go on to be geniuses. Throwing education at everyone and having it become a breeders babysitting service is not helping the general public

Taking more funding away from public schools isn't the answer. Schools are already operating on 2018/2019 funding since the state hasn't approved an increase in funding per student since then.

@@seh0041 Clueless

@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 I consider myself a lifelong learner, so please enlighten me. How does removing money from the public school fund (which is already five years behind) possibly help these schools? I hear the cries of "get creative," but I can see that MOST schools are already doing more with less. They've been doing this for a long time. Compare TX outcomes to states that allocate more per student.

@@seh0041 Read the comment again. Invest in students, not systems. Public schools exist to indoctrinate, not educate. The sooner they are gone, the better.

they also do not tell people that are rushing to partake in the vouchers and education savings accounts that there are strings tied to that funding and that it means the same aligned curriculum products that the public schools use. school choice is only a choice of location its not a choice of education. we are watching this come out in Arizona right now.

we do most states have half their budget for schools. This is mostly propaganda

@ why is it propaganda? Here learning….

@ “more funding for schools”. Really means higher pay for teachers. Over 95% of school budgets go for payroll. Simply throwing more money doesn’t mean better outcomes. If you want better outcome then smaller classrooms and higher parental involvement

@@Dog.soldier1950that’s a great idea!

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