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A Boring Dystopia
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The children are working to fund the school.
Nuf said?
The school is funded already through taxpayers. The fact that "the children are working to fund the school" is an acceptable line of logic is already dystopian.
Traditionally, children do fundraisers to fund extracurricular activities, like a field trip. If the school is taking that money to add to their budget, that's crossing the line into exploiting kids' labor for money.
Where do you live that public schools are properly funded by taxes? American schools are embarrassingly underfunded, and teachers are tragically underpaid and typically have to spend their own money to buy supplies for their students.
https://usafacts.org/topics/education/
I was surprised to find out how much the U.S. actually does spend on education, given how shitty it is. Idk where the money is going, but it's definitely funded
I'm not sure if I'm reading the data wrong or what, but that usafacts.org says 35% of people 25 or older have at least a bachelors degree. When I checked the census data, it says only 27.4% have that... https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2021.S1501?q=EDUCATIONAL%20ATTAINMENT&g=010XX00US$0400000&tid=ACSST1Y2021.S1501
Link doesn't work for me, but I'll look it up