Project idea to reduce student fees and increase teacher's income
Why not just raise taxes and provide free college education and job training programs?<p>Do trust fund students never need to pay because they never take a job?<p>If a student dies (suppose 20 people in the class of 2024 die in a bus accident), do the teachers make nothing extra?<p>This gives a strong monetary inventive to only teach children with a high chance of making money. Who will want to teach poor students?<p>What about the teachers of special needs children? Some of the more severely disabled are unlikely to ever have a job which pays much money, if at all? Doesn&#x27;t this scheme punish those teachers?<p>&quot;will make better income in the long-term for their lifetime&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not how the funding works. Teachers decide based on overall compensation, and the system can re-balance to compensate. Staff and schools will get money from this system, so the school board will reduce other funding.<p>Here&#x27;s some related examples:<p>When I was young, Florida introduced the state lottery and justified it by saying the profits would go to education. And some voted for it because of that.<p>So if the lottery regularly brings in $50 million to state education, the state reduces the state funding by $50 million.<p>Or, a company which says &quot;we offer free food for lunch, so you don&#x27;t need as high a salary because you don&#x27;t need to buy or bring your own lunch.&quot;