Should schools reopen?

[Pyro as Bill]

gergroy said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Depends on the budget in your state but given the $12k average and the average class size shouldn't be bigger than 10-15 depending on the subject, I'd cut pupil spending by ~33% and pay you $100k with a $20-30k budget for pencils n shit while saving the taxpayer ~$50k.

Haha, that would be great!  Wouldn’t happen in Utah though.  We are in last place in per pupil spending by a long ways.  I have never had a class of less than 30 students.  This is actually the first year in a long time that all my classes aren’t over 40 and that’s because they just built a new school... I do make about 65k though.

For a profession that is supposed to educate, why has no teacher or teaching union been able to point out the savings/benefits using simple multiplication/division?

- $7000 pupil spending even in Utah in 2016. (That's the UK average in £). $20,000 in New York which is more than the cost of some excellent private schools in the UK.

30 kids x $7000 = $210,000

15 kids x $7000 = $105,000