I'm sure part of that is she's just smart, but part of that is not taking all the time off. For example, my 7 year old daughter just tested at grade level 4.0 for reading, and grade level 4.5 for math. I can say this method has worked great for our kids that are home schooling. I'm happy to boost school spending to compensate teachers for the extra time. If you do that learning will rapidly accelerate as kids will no be taking absurdly long breaks that disrupt learning. That's an extra 65 days of schooling or 13 or so weeks of schooling (at 5 days a week). That should get you to about 245ish school days. Give kids 1 week off school for summer, and one for Christmas break with a couple of three day weekends here and there. Most schools only go to school about 180ish days per year. The most impactful way to get kids back up to speed would be to stop taking half the year off school.
I know my own worth so it doesn't bother me, but for a young person that could be decisive also. But there are plenty of folks who assume that I teach because I'm not competent to do anything else. I certainly know many in my own community who express appreciation and value for what I do, and that means a lot. Or, they might decide to engage in work that has higher social status. Good candidates conclude it isn't worth the financial risk to teach. That matters since if you know your earnings will be limited, uncertainty for retirement (and kids in college) can be decisive. Here's the tricky part - what is the future for those who are needed to continue the work of educating children? Why would any person choose this job who isn't a sort of "activist"? It used to be that a normal person could assume that becoming a teacher would mean a modest income at best, but with access to insurance and a stable retirement. I am NOT complaining, my husband (also a teacher/coach) and I are fine and we truly love our jobs. My nephew is in his 20's and working in the finance industry with a bachelor's degree and few years of experience, and he makes more than I do. I'm a math teacher, with bachelor's and master's degrees in math. There is one reckoning that needs to happen in regard to expenditures such as retirement. Schools have some extra dollars right now and it isn't clear where they should really go, so some of that money is sitting, still unspent. COVID funding is a great example of that. New York City and Washington, D.C., each spent more than $30,000 per pupil in 2020, and that was before they shed students and received federal COVID relief.Īs a public HS teacher I am in complete agreement that we are not strategic enough in how tax dollars are spent in education. And yet the 2021 Illinois Report Card found that just one-in-four high school juniors could read or do math at grade level. This year, Chicago Public Schools is spending $29,000 per student. It’s worth noting just how much America’s school systems are already spending. (If you’re wondering about where the $700 billion figure came from, it’s kind of in the middle of that range.) By imagining some iron-clad relationships between school spending and student outcomes, then plugging in a few cherry-picked examples, Shores and Steinberg promise that spending an extra $350 billion to $1.4 trillion on schooling will remedy learning loss. The study, published in Educational Researcher by University of Delaware professor Kenneth Shores and George Mason University professor Matthew Steinberg, uses some impressive-looking math and a lot of hand-waving to lend a “scientific” imprimatur to the education lobby’s demands for more dollars. Last week, the American Education Research Association (AERA) unfurled a new “study” suggesting that, “$700 billion will be needed to offset COVID-induced learning loss”-$500 billion more than what’s already been spent. But the nation’s education researchers beg to differ. This might suggest that care is warranted when considering the merits of earmarking even more COVID-related funds for K-12 schooling. In fact, more than 90 percent of the $122 billion earmarked for schools in the 2021 American Rescue Plan remained unspent as of the end of the last school year. That was the case well after it was clear that kids could and should be back in classrooms.
Early rounds of funding weren’t enough to get school systems like New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco to open their doors-or even to offer full-day remote schooling. Among the trillions of dollars spent on COVID relief, $200 billion went to K-12 schooling.
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