Catholics see: Why many hate The Catholic Doctrine of Subsidiarity
One nun is teaching almost 40 well-behaved, well-dressed children. Her salary is $5,000.00 a year. The school building was paid for by voluntary donations. No cost to the taxpayer!
Catholic teacher cost per student was 5,000/year divided by 40 students: $125.00 per student per year! We add the cost of administration and maintenance. Not long ago, Catholic Schools educated children for $500.00 a year. Those children had far better test scores in every subject than today’s public school students.
An ideal modern classroom shows what’s coming:
The new ideal public school classroom shows 8 children in the room. In many states, costs are $60,000 dollars a year in salary and $10,000 in benefits for teaching 8 students. The teacher works six hours a day for seven months a year. We divide $70,000 by 8 children and see the teacher cost per student is headed from $500.00/year in a Catholic School to almost $9,000.00 in the new, ideal classroom!
Catholics are smart enough to consider the pension costs of the teacher. In many states, teachers retire and collect $80,000/year for 30 years. Each retiree takes 2.4 million dollars while doing nothing!
Lifetime cost of one public school teacher for 8 children for 30 years is nearly $4,400,00.00! Cost to taxpayers for one nun teaching for 30 years and retiring for 25? $125,000.00! Public school teachers, in many states, cost taxpayers 35 times more than Catholic nuns or volunteers!
That cost is increased even more by salaries and pensions for countless counselors, aides, assistant superintendents, assistant principals, diversity experts, “modern” buildings, gyms, swimming pools, playing fields, cafeterias, security, and transportation!
If more Christians were Catholic, we could stop some of this waste. But, Christians are divided among 45,000 Marketing Plan Denominations. Protestant denominations need to collect $25.00 per person per week to make their budgets. That’s far more than the average $5.00-$10.00 that many American Catholic families donate every week.
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Catholics wonder why The Church does not encourage Catholic Cyber Schools with computer-based curriculum. A few nuns, volunteers, and retired parishioners could provide far better education for a few hundred dollars a year. Children could learn far more at far less cost. Our property taxes could drop!
We see: Why many hate The Catholic Doctrine of Subsidiarity.
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