But more money should be spent on their kids--both on teachers and in the classroom for materials (etc.)--and not on others.
Oddly, though, this also works for parents at failing schools. The kids who don't pass their tests, the kids at schools that show a severe "achievement gap" with others ... spend more money, but the parents are satisfied.
The poll, I'm sorry to say, has some good points. But one of them is to ask questions that, if answered by most people, are going to confirm what the union wants. More money for teachers and more money in the classroom.
Sorry. American education isn't as broken as some say, but neither is it as good as the poll would lead us to infer. While more money would be nice, it's not the main problem in American education. Neither, sad to say, is the over-emphasis on testing and "rigor."
Testing and rigor are just a reaction to the blueberries that parents send us when considered in the iight of what experts and employers say our workforce needs are and what colleges say is needed for optimum college readiness. When testing and rigor doesn't succeed in the public schools, we look at what we're allowed to assign blame to and decide that it has to be the schools.
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