Ain’t even anybody on the slidin’ boards
Hey! How about a $93,000 a year per pupil cost? Go to the nearest public school and learn diddly squad (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/declining-enrollment-leaves-150-chicago-school-buildings-half/).
That’s Chicago, pilgrims. Chicago’s schools are half empty (we mean it literally), the costs are going into the stratosphere, and no one’s doing anything to dial it back.
They’re blaming it on “lower birth rates.” Later on I have a bridge to sell you. Or you can buy it from the American Federation of Teachers, the big bad union on the block. Somehow none of this seems to have upset the teachers’ unions. Like, they’re gonna get their money and their pensions anyhow, come what may–right?
So 150 school buildings in Chicago are now half-empty…and the cost of keeping them in business goes up and up and up.
This makes a good point; public education is big business. Keeping half empty buildings in operation is poor business practice. This will not go well.
I would say this is a case of financial insanity. I want to see the public school system become privatized with lots of competition. Better yet, make homeschooling affordable (no double taxation).