The School Funding Shell Game
How much should we spend on education? And where should we get the money? These are the wrong questions to ask. And we’ll never get to the right questions until we stop being distracted by the wrong ones.
This book is a collection of ads that were published in 2017-18 in response to a statewide push in New Hampshire to elect state representatives who would blindly support increased funding to public schools, without worrying at all about what that extra funding was supposed to accomplish.
It’s coming around again in the form of a lawsuit and we need to be prepared.
The ideas in the ads were covered in more depth in a presentation that explains why focusing on funding is the wrong thing to do. The presentation turned into my book Rethinking Fairness in Education.
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“Each talking point starts off with an anecdote, meme, joke, or cartoon on a single page. Then the page facing it has the argument to consider. Some of the author’s favorites are about a wife who cuts off part of a roast because her mother always did, a police officer helping a guy look for his lost car keys under a light post in a ball field and an umbrella parable. They deal with the issues of flawed thinking and roles and expectations of schools by generationally misguided members of their communities. Solutions and prognostications are offered in the closing talking points.
With Con Val currently doing a “Claremont 2.0” attempt and city elections being this year, it’s a perfect time to read these masterpieces. [...] it should be required reading for ANY city candidate.”
