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How much of that goes to the teacher? It seems to be soaked up by administration.

Well, what does the administration do? What programs does it have to manage? How are administrators paid compared to teachers?

The teachers who didn't grade homework and passed students who hadn't actually learned anything? They're utterly powerless and more funding won't help them. The schools need to radically change their approach to education, top to bottom.

Those teachers wanted to fail the kids, but administration told them they couldn't.

Because of changes that mostly started with No Child Left Behind, which tried to not leave children behind by not letting them be held back when they didn't learn!

Why are kids suddenly so uneducated? Well what happened roughly one 18 year long education timespan ago? No Child Left Behind.

I'm calling BS here. The article on NHJ would have had the failure rate around 50% or higher based on how poorly the students performed. The school literally cannot accommodate so many students failing a grade level and being held back.

Further, no child left behind punished schools based on standardized test scores, not the artificially inflated grades the students were getting.

Instead, they are getting 52k per pupil to not even grade homework? That's definitely not a consequence of no child left behind.

Schools are for education. They are not for raising kids. That is the parents job.

If the home situation is fucked up it doesn't matter how much money you throw at the schools.

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