Over at Cato-at-Liberty they turn on the sarcasm juice regarding education budgets being reduced by the housing crisis.

The summary news lede simply doesn’t do justice to this looming educational catastrophe . . . we need to turn to the numbers.

At Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, parents fear cuts in Montgomery County’s proposed $2.1 billion budget will threaten the math-science magnet program.

The desperate schools of Montgomery County will need to find some way stretch the $15,246 they have to spend on each of the 137,745 students in their schools. The Post informs us that the $2.1 billion budget is “a year-to-year increase of $110 million. But it would be the smallest annual increase since 1997.” This 5 percent increase is the smallest in 10 years! Surely bake sales must be held.

Seriously we need to do what we did for microwaves for our children. We need to privatize education. That way even poor children will have a chance at an education that will lead to greater wealth. We shoudl care about our children as much as microwaves shouldn’t we?

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