Should schools reopen?

[Pyro as Bill]

gergroy said:

Pyro as Bill said:

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

Well... unfortunately there is quite a bit more cost associated with education than just paying the teachers... heck, my school spent over $50,000 on just paper last year... and that’s with every student having a chromebook...

You do have to pay for the building, support staff, supplies, lunches, district staff, technology, etc.  There is a lot more that needs to be paid for besides the teacher, education isn’t cheap...

Whoever came up with the idea of putting 30 children in a room stuck behind a desk and expect them to become educated deserves to be shot for the damage and cost they've done to society.

$50k on paper. So divide $50k by the number of pupils (1000-10000) and give them a $5-$50 voucher to buy their own paper.

It's almost as though a contract with the public sector will set a company up for life and make enough profit to dish out the occasional bribe.