As the son of a teacher and a friend of several teachers, you're way underestimating their workload.

▲ rahimnathwani 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I estimated that a class of 22 children would require one full time teacher and one full time teaching assistant.

What am I missing? My table has $200k left over so we could add another full time teacher at $150k?

▲ lazyasciiart 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Any specialized teaching: art, languages, in high school I understand they have a different teacher for each subject, a librarian, a substitute teacher on sick days, an individual aide for one of the kids to represent the special education budget…

But I remember you previously and you appear to want a school system that spends money on exactly what your child needs and nothing else.

	▲	rahimnathwani 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		`you appear to want a school system that spends money on exactly what your child needs and nothing else.` Providing for my child's educational needs is my job as a parent, not the job of the government 'school system'. But if the government is going to operate schools and demand that we all pay for those schools, I'd prefer it if those schools were run for the benefit of students (and specifically to maximize academic achievement) and not for the benefit of government employees.