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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Without going back and looking, I would guess that he also decided not to include benefits, which would add about 32% even to this artificially deflated figure.
I guess benefits are either waste, fraud, or abuse. Right?
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A large part of the problem is that our education system is modeled on the "teachers-as-committed-and-poor" paradigm, where they were a relatively small expenditure, and thus the system could be run in a cheap-labor-intensive mode. For better or for worse, that's no longer the case, but we've kept the same model. We either find a way to teach without the well-paid pros, or we pay a lot more for educamating our kids.
Plus, as long as we're gonna mandate the mainstreaming of the halt and the drain, we're stuck counting a lot of non-educational costs as educational, which skews the conversation mightily.
