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View submission: The Mental Gymnastics is Infuriating
Title 1 pays for tutoring programs before and after the school day and some clubs—like my school’s highly popular and successful chess club. It pays the salaries of additional math and English teachers to hyget kids up to grade level. It pays for Saturday school and summer school programs—all targeting math and reading competency and at-risk students. I work 10-15 hours a week extra. And I’m a teacher and I get paid extra for the extra work. I think some people think DOE and Title I money is thrown around willynilly—like pork barrel spending. In my district and our state (I think) there is a lot of scrutiny about how the money is spent. I’ve seen title 1 fund really innovative and fun ways of engaging students and very little waste. Attendance is really important. They curtail programs in a manner of days if the attendance goals are not met.
I guess I see this spending a lot like funding for vaccines. You may save a few bucks on measles and polio vaccines, but in the aggregate, it’s costly to ignore—measles, polio and illiteracy—all scourges.
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