Education cuts could be used to pay for the upper middle class

17. March 2011 |(19) comments

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When the public education system is inadequate, this case concerns. Ironically on the top and middle class families can end up more of their children's education. My family knows the experience.

St. Louis, I spent my school between 1987 and 1993. Missouri was the extremely low property taxes, as a result of the public education system is underfunded. This will be null and void with a high quality education, which is the private sector was welcomed.

My family was economically, is considered to be upper middle class and lived in the affluent neighborhood. My parents wanted me, the best training in the basic guidelines, so I went to one of the many area religious private schools.

Your own private training price tag was $ 7,500 a year. My family to pay more for the first class education studies than I paid for my senior year, his studies of Wisconsin-Madison. We were not alone.

Many families send their children to private schools in St. Louis, where they give the price tag for the difference between the quality of education and the regulation of the private school: my class size was 18-22, 31-37, compared with a public school.

Just before the junior high is written, my family moved to Wisconsin. We have compared to the training of public and private settings. We found our suburban District, which has only been in the area of the considerably less private schools did not have a significant advantage, they did attend public schools, as compared with the training.

Missouri in 1993, the family paid about 3 000 and property. We can move to the lower House of the Wisconsin and our property taxes jumped 45 000 dollars. However, for what you pay for: the public better.

Before we can move the my parents had to pay $ a year, my sister and me to get the best education possible, Fisher. Wisconsin the great family of the public education system, stored in a net $ coins.

I am an upper middle class to the schedule. My parents, such as I'm sure my kids get the best education possible. We need a project on the consequences of the responsibility for the collections because of the shortage of education.

What my family was found is that the upper and middle class Families to educate their children will end up in more and more, when the State financed education sufficiently. I don't want to cut public funding of the schools-it only cost me more in the long term.

Matthew Stamerjohn, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated from the University funding.