Fun fact: "Throwing money at the problem" is, indeed, a solution when the problem itself stems from underfunding.

Public education in America: Broken as a result of underfunding that prevents schools from hiring enough teachers and forces them to cut necessary programs.

Commentators: Okay, but you can't throw money at the problem, let's try charters instead.

We do not need Creative Solutions™ to the public education crisis. We need to stop tying public school funding to local property tax revenue and have both the federal and state governments to massively invest in public education.

It's not actually that complicated, like, at all! If the main crisis facing schools is a lack of funding, then yes, "throwing money at the problem" is the solution. I can't believe how successful bad faith factors are at obfuscating this.

Do I think that underfunding is the *only* problem facing schools? Obviously not.

But the first step to fixing schools is to fund them adequately - From there you can approach solving the rest of the problems endemic to the American public education system.

It's the same way that people who despise the homeless claim that giving everyone homes of some kind (through whatever mechanism that might entail) "won't solve the problem". I mean, yeah, I suppose, but that's obviously the first thing you need to do!

None of the people who make this point about homelessness are acting in good faith. We know this because the people who say "it's not about housing, it's about mental health/drug abuse" oppose increased funding for mental health or substance abuse prevention services.

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