This chart compares student achievement to money “invested” in education. The blue line clearly shows what’s wrong with America’s school systems.
BigGovernment.com spells out the details:
Student achievement at the end of high school has been flat for as long as we’ve been keeping track—all the way back to 1970. But we did get something in return for all that hiring: a great, big, fat, BILL.
If you graduated from high school in 1980, your entire k-12 education cost your fellow taxpayers about $75,000, in 2009 dollars. But the graduating class of 2009 had roughly twice that amount lavished on their public school careers. The extra $75,000 we’re now spending has done wonders for public school employee union membership, dues revenue, and political clout. It’s done a whole lotta nothin’ for student learning.
In the immortal words of Pink Floyd, “We don’t need no education.”
In the immortal words of IHateTheMedia.com, “We don’t need no teachers’ unions.”
Source: BigGovernment.com
