Cities And Their Residents May Differ In The Value They Place On Public Education

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Data provided in the argument do not necessarily show that any one of the two cities — Parson City and Blue City — cares more than the other about its public school education, and nor do they illustrate that the region's cities "differ" in the value they place on public education in general.

To begin Breitling Bentley Replica with, money a city is willing to spend on public education indicates to a degree its care about it. However, it is not the sum of public money, but the proportion of such money invested in public education to money a city collects from the public that shows its care about public education. In this way, we need first to know how much money the two cities collect respectively per year. If Parson City collects twice as much money as Blue City, then the two cities place, seemingly, equal value on public school education. If Parson City collects three times as much, it cares even less about such education, for it invests a smaller proportion of public money than does Blue City.

Further, a city's direct use of public money ...
... is only one means to support public education, and is therefore only one indication of its care; there are other means and indications. Among these, education policies tell a lot. For instance, how do families borrow money to pay for their children's education in these two cities? And how do they repay it? Does one of the two cities give more favorable conditions for borrowing public money for educational purposes so that most families are willing to borrow and therefore can afford to send their children to schools, including private schools, and even schools in other cities and regions and states? Answers to these questions are, too, evidence of their care about education, and even about public education.

On the other hand, the value a city places on its public school education has much to do with the value it places on private school education. Let's suppose, for example, that Blue City has got the tradition of valuing private schools, that most of the children do go to these schools, and that corporations and citizens there are more willing to donate their money to such schools than people in Parson City are. It follows that Blue City needs a smaller number of public schools. Then, although Blue City spends less money on public school education per year, each and every of its public schools receive larger sums of money per year from the government than those in Parson City do. It Vacheron Constantin Replica further follows that the teachers there receive higher wages, the students are happier, and their parents praise their public schools more often. In these circumstances, you are more likely to be ridiculed than praised when you tell them that their government and they themselves as "residents" care less about public school education.

Cities and their residents may differ in the value they place on public education. But this argument does not help evidence or explain such difference. Lack of relevant data and faulty reasoning are the matter.