But this probably doesn't happen in Grinnell
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/nyregion/16rubber.html>
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/4/2011 1:37 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> Ken,
>
> In New York City, the cost of living is so outrageous that the schools there
> simply have to pay everyone who works for them twice the pay the Iowa
> schools have to pay, or else their staff would all be in poverty. People
> with Masters degrees (most teachers. Here in Indiana, and probably in NY too
> a masters is required to teach) won't work for poverty wages. On top of
> that, costs for everything else, like electricity, building materials to
> repair old schools, etc. cost far more there than they do in the midwest.
>
> So, no, the money isn't buying them a better education, but take the money
> away and they'll get NO education, which is exactly what a lot of
> conservatives think that poor 'nigger kids' and 'white trash' deserve. I
> know you don't agree with that, so be careful how you interpret numbers you
> see in the corporate media...you have to dig a little deeper to find the
> cause of a lot of government spending than what those in power would like.
> If you want to bring school spending in big cities down, then the cost of
> housing (the primary driver of the high cost of living that causes the price
> of EVERYTHING else to rise in places like NYC) must be brought down to
> reality. An apartment in NYC that a middle class person in Iowa would live
> in (i.e. Not in a dangerous neighborhood, not infested with bugs or mold,
> the plumbing and heat works, etc) costs $2000 in NYC compared to $700 in the
> midwest.
>
>
>
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