I am willing to bet that that highest paid employee is a football coach. Which says something about our value systems. I could be wrong, but from I have seen the odds are in my favor.
Education is a public good. It is in the interest of the state to provide public goods at reasonable cost (including taxation as part of that reasonable co…
I am willing to bet that that highest paid employee is a football coach. Which says something about our value systems. I could be wrong, but from I have seen the odds are in my favor.
Education is a public good. It is in the interest of the state to provide public goods at reasonable cost (including taxation as part of that reasonable cost). It is about as pragmatic as you get.
This is an expansive view of what governments should do, but it is based on what were once the values of the Whig (and then Republican) government.
There are a number of things that are public goods that the government provides--a court system, law enforcement, a military, interstate highways, dams, bridges, water/flood control.. and so on. This is (these days, it was not always so) seen as both right and proper.
Public schools are a public good... because it is cheaper on a per capita basis to provide it through taxation than for individual families to pay for it... and the benefits resound through the nation and national economy.
Public schools are not the only schools.
State universities are not the only universities.
If you REALLY want to get down to brass tacks, then EVERY state is a socialist state as all states (even pre-state societies) regulate. Although, to be SUPER precise, only democratic states (paying attention to the word community) qualify.
People tend to ignore that part as regulation is ubiquitous--and thus the definition collapses most cogently into the ownership of the means of production and distribution. Which we are, in most cases VERY far from.
Oh, I know it is a football coach. It's that way in almost all of the states with even remotely serious college football.
And yeah, it speaks very poorly to our value system. Hell, the fact that we've let athletics and education continue so entwined in this country is a problem in my book. One we have about zero chance of solving, but a problem nonetheless. And I say that as someone who devotes all of his fall Saturdays to college football (well, now that the kids don't have their own sports on Saturdays much).
I am willing to bet that that highest paid employee is a football coach. Which says something about our value systems. I could be wrong, but from I have seen the odds are in my favor.
Education is a public good. It is in the interest of the state to provide public goods at reasonable cost (including taxation as part of that reasonable cost). It is about as pragmatic as you get.
This is an expansive view of what governments should do, but it is based on what were once the values of the Whig (and then Republican) government.
There are a number of things that are public goods that the government provides--a court system, law enforcement, a military, interstate highways, dams, bridges, water/flood control.. and so on. This is (these days, it was not always so) seen as both right and proper.
Public schools are a public good... because it is cheaper on a per capita basis to provide it through taxation than for individual families to pay for it... and the benefits resound through the nation and national economy.
Public schools are not the only schools.
State universities are not the only universities.
If you REALLY want to get down to brass tacks, then EVERY state is a socialist state as all states (even pre-state societies) regulate. Although, to be SUPER precise, only democratic states (paying attention to the word community) qualify.
People tend to ignore that part as regulation is ubiquitous--and thus the definition collapses most cogently into the ownership of the means of production and distribution. Which we are, in most cases VERY far from.
Oh, I know it is a football coach. It's that way in almost all of the states with even remotely serious college football.
And yeah, it speaks very poorly to our value system. Hell, the fact that we've let athletics and education continue so entwined in this country is a problem in my book. One we have about zero chance of solving, but a problem nonetheless. And I say that as someone who devotes all of his fall Saturdays to college football (well, now that the kids don't have their own sports on Saturdays much).