aThe Carmel Central School District, which extorts money from us, spends a little over $13,300.00 per pupil per year. I have a modest proposal for reducing the costs of the CCSD significantly. Let us pay half that amount, about $6,650.00 per school age child, to each family within the district who takes its children out of school and home schools them. A family with two children would receive $13,300 or a little over $1,100 a month, and this might be enough to permit a number of families on the margin to have a stay at home parent for a while. At any rate, parents would have more latitude as a result of this subsidy in coming up with childcare arrangements other than public schools. The district budget would be reduced in proportion to the number of pupils no longer matriculating.
Although every parent will not take advantage of this program, it would be a boon to the district if they did. Full participation would permit the district to eliminate almost all the costs of administration. There would be no need for school buses or buildings and grounds, and these assets could be sold off. The windfall from real estate in Putnam County alone would go a long way toward funding the district.
Best of all, the children of the district will receive better educations.
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very much closer to that education system that we discussed earlier. I should have the math and science home-school supports for middle and high school ready by the end of the summer. I meet with folks this week to work on the development stuff - i'll know more by august, but i have been given a go ahead to start creating 'kits'.
hmmmmm. might read the thread post i made at independent country.
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