Originally posted by JCHILLTOPPERS:
Originally posted by Cross Bones:
Originally posted by mchsalumni:
My car analogy still works. There are fixed costs in an educational environment. How could there not be?
So to end this thread, you can't just cut your price in half and sell twice the amount you did at the full price. Ever. For any product or service. It's fiscally irresponsible, and will bankrupt you.
Does that make sense Bones? This is business 101 stuff here, not exactly nuclear physics.
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You have not provided the cost to educate a child. Please feel free to go ahead and do that, then explain how you came to that cost. I'll wait. Your car analogy does not work. This is the easy stuff mchs, how can I expect you to get the hard stuff?
This post was edited on 12/20 12:23 PM by Cross Bones
Bones, cost to educate one child is one of the most difficult problems around. it's a frustrating one, too. Presently a big political issue out here in DC, where the public schools are god awful.
This is where the problem lies:
I can tell you exactly what it costs to educate 1 student at any school, if the school had 1 student. I can tell you what it costs 2 students as well, etc etc. However, when the you get to a hundred students or so, things get very complicated. You are now sharing rooms, electric, computer fees, etc etc.
Some prices go up with more kids, some go down.
Just look at physical space to see how complicated things get: suppose you have a building that can sit 100 kids. By adding kids, from 1 -100, the cost per student goes down. Also, it is easier to pay teachers as 5 teachers teaching 20 kids is cheaper than paying 1 teacher to teach 1 kid. However, suddenly you have to pay for more desks, more electricity, more insurance, etc etc.
And that is just the start of it.
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The issue JCA is facing is part tuition, part improving public schools...and this is where things get real maddening.
When I was at JCA, the public schools in the surrounding area were West and Plainfield. Neither were particularly very good at all...at all...at all. Now however, both have received substantial state funding, and the Joliet, Plainfield, and Minooka schools are substantially improved...substantially...
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I tie my two points together.
I believe parents should have a meaningful choice as to where they send their kids. JCA does not need a tuition change so much as parents who send their kids to private schools should receive a significant tax credit during the years that their kids go to private schools - like JCA. I do believe citizens should support their community and pay taxes to fund public schools. Even during times when their kids are not going to them like pre-high school and post-high school. However, during high school years, it seems odd to me to force families who want a different kind of education that the only type offered by the state, to have to pay for what the state won't and cannot provide. During those years, give those families a tax break.