Wednesday, June 20, 2018

US Education Cost Drivers


Entitlement to a college education at a pricy university is a scam parents should discourage. Parents don’t need to mortgage the house to send their darlings to college and students don’t need student loan balances the will never be able to repay. Student loans are now $1.5 trillion in the US. Students don’t need a multi-billion dollar campus to become liberal cult victims or to learn false or useless information.

US University construction costs totaled $205 billion from 1995 to 2014.
From 1995 to 1999 universities spent $30 billion.
From 2000 to 2004 universities spent $52 billion.
From 2005 to 2009 universities spent $68 billion.
From 2010 to 2014 universities spent $55 billion.

Universities spent this money to attract snowflakes to their beautiful toxic campuses.

The US spent $623.5 billion on elementary and secondary public schools in 2017, bringing the average cost for Public Education to $12,300 per year per student.

The median cost of a middle school is $242.96 per square foot. Median spending per pupil was $43,635 and the median middle school provides 173.4 square feet per student. The median number of students in middle schools built in 2014 is 612 and the building size is 118,500 square feet. The cost is $26.5 million.- Jul 1, 2015

US Education supports an expensive bureaucracy. It’s a jobs program. In 1910 there were 900,000 employees working in educational institutions. In 2015 there were 13,723,900 employees working in educational institutions.


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader


1 comment:

  1. Schools cost more every year because school administrators have been encouraged to plan for budget growth every year. And school rating sites actually count spending (on things other than sports or hospitals) as a plus point--boosting pricier schools above "No-Frills McGill" or "Labor Not Pay-fer Berea," although both are academically rigorous enough for anybody.

    NTL, your readers (and the young people they care about) should consider Berea--if they can get in! Tough school in every way, administrators actually seemed to me to be watching for signs of pain, but I walked out with a pocket full of cash instead of a debt. If kids can handle the work, being poor, from the North Georgia mountains, and/or non-White count in their favor.

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