Nonparents and nonstudents, do you think we should increase education spending?

Question

i know most parents and students think we should, do you appose it or support it?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Absolutely. The poorer schools and districts need all they can get. Abolish that horrible NCLB.

Answer 3

I think we should not have education run at a federal level.  It is actually illegal.  Statewide is the way it should be to provide competition between the states to work towards a much better system.

Answer 4

I have voted for increases in education spending in my local school district even though I don't have children in school.  I think it is important to educate the children.

I might feel differently if I lived in some inner city school districts that don't seem to be capable of educating their students.  I live in the Chicago area and the Chicago city schools are so messed up that giving them more money without reform would be a waste of money.

Answer 5

Increased spending is not always the best answer.  Sure, we need competent teachers and the resources to educate our children.  It seems whenever we vote to throw more money towards education the administrators raise their salaries and benefits.  Perhaps a better managed system of allocating resources will help our education system?

Parents must also take a larger role in their children's early educational life by reading to them or reciting multiplication tables for example.  Teaching more challenging subjects such as trigonometry or foreign languages earlier than we do now may have a larger impact on a child's later academic success.