Blogging About Schools
Y'all reading my other blog, Lone Star Schools? Why not! It's very educational. :) Some recent posts: HISD Wrongly Spending Money on Rodeo? Yeah, it's just possible that $100,000 from a fund for benefiting students went to sending teachers and administrators to a rodeo gala. I have some thoughts and questions on that. Education Stimulus: Strings Attached I have some details on when the money starts flowing and what the requirements are for being stimulated. Educationally, that is. Texas Education Agency on Twitter! There first tweets were pretty interesting. Go check it out! No Harris County Teachers on Social Studies TEKS Review Committee? 20% of Texas school kids live in Harris County, yet not one Harris County teacher is on the TEKS review committee. Did the Harris SBOE members drop the ball or did none of our teachers submit their names? Texas Legislature Considering Changing School Accountability System I'm all about changing TAKS requirements and how they get used to punish schools, but the hodge podge of ideas in these proposals do not strike me as data driven or based on research. It Costs $99K to Per Year to Lock Up a Youth in Texas And just $7978 to educate a Texas student for one year. Sounds like a crime to me. All my Lone Star School blog posts go directly to twitter, so I invite you to follow me! @lonestarschools.
2 comments:
You make it sound like it would be so easy to just educate the "99K a year" youths instead of locking them up. The problem with that is that the school system has already failed with these youth, along with the churches, police, probation, etc.
These are not innocent youth. They have all committed serious felony crimes - many of them violent crimes.
As for why it takes more to incarcerate these youth than adults, we cannot just warehouse them like we can the adults.
The legislature has mandated a small staff to student ratio, and guaranteed they will receive an education and treatment. These things are not cheap, but they are necessary if we want these kids to be productive and decent adults.
I'm not at all clear where I said it would be easy to educate them instead of locking them up. ??
My point is that there is a huge disparity in the amount of money we spend on incarcerated youth and students. And, we are 48th in the country on spending per pupil.
If you use your own words in regards to public education, I do believe we'd be a lot better off as a state. And, many of our high schools across the nation are warehousing students. Definitely:
"The legislature has mandated a small staff to student ratio, and guaranteed they will receive an education and treatment. These things are not cheap, but they are necessary if we want these kids to be productive and decent adults."
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