[ohyes]

Wealthier people do have more advantages in life. It's tautological to the extent that it describes what it is to be wealthy.

We're talking about public education though, ideally, public education would have a universally high standard, and making funding for public education based on something like property values ensures that in certain areas it will be underfunded.

So it's really about whether we take universal public education seriously or if we're just providing education to some and a state sponsored daycare service to others.

[hash-set]

But it doesn't matter how it gets funded, it will always be chronically under-funded! I have watched this going on for thirty years! There is something inherently wrong with public education systems. I don't know if it is the unions or what, but no matter how much money we throw at them, they are always under-funded. It's amazing.

[ohyes]

This is a pretty interesting chart.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d10/tables/dt10_083.asp

If you go and plug the numbers in from 1970 to something that adjusts for inflation to ~2008, it doesn't seem that teacher salaries have really changed that much, maybe a 10% increase on average? Hardly seems like throwing tons of money at the problem.

[masonic]

It's not adjusted for reduced time spent on actual classroom and prep time or for increased benefits and pensions.