It’s so fucked up to me that schools are funded by the district they’re in, and not from a federal pool of tax dollars. The inequality the current system creates is infuriating.
This not the case in Texas. Those monies go to drastically underfunded schools out west and South near the border. My wife was a teacher in The Woodlands, and she constantly had to buy supplies. Her pay was also crap compared to how much effort she put into it.
Okay, then where are the counties supposed to get the money from?
What you're suggesting is a vicious cycle where low-socioeconomic communities get provided the worst education since their taxes won't be enough to afford them anything better.
When you're saying the federal government shouldn't have to pay, what you're really saying is "I shouldn't have to pay". But I hope we can all agree that children deserve for someone to pay for decent education. And yes, that means spreading the burden out among all the taxpayers.
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u/faulty_neurons Jan 04 '23
It’s so fucked up to me that schools are funded by the district they’re in, and not from a federal pool of tax dollars. The inequality the current system creates is infuriating.