Jared – It’s amazing how often embezzlement happens at public schools, yet there’s no accountability.

My government teacher, who was a proud and vocal communist, refused to admit that higher income taxes are a disincentive to work. Such was her eagerness to shout down my claims to the contrary that she spun around in her seat fast enough to throw herself to the ground. She was a sweet old lady, really, but I would have been better served trying to learn biology from a creationist than government from a communist.

Our high school’s “business manager” managed to loose somewhere between $50 and $100 thousand dollars at one point. In order to cover his tracks he attempted to appropriate the missing funds from student activities who had done their own fund-raising, independent groups like the athletic booster club who never received any school money in the first place, and finally a student-run 9-11 relief fund. When all that failed and he finally admitted the money was missing … nobody did anything about it, and he continues to work the same post today.

With economic and business sense like that in the ranks, they’ll be wasting $20K per student in no time.

I ask because I am all about school choice, but every time I hear about how private schools spend half as much I have to laugh, because if tuition had actually been that cheap my parents wouldn’t have had to send me to such a crap public school. Private schools here are uniformly as expensive as college.

Oh wait. That isn’t quite right, is it?

I know. I can’t afford the cost of educating my child. You can’t afford the cost of educating your child. So we all can afford the costs of education all of our children?

Oh wait. That one doesn’t work either.