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Show COMPARE SCHOOL COSTS WITH CRIME The following comparison of the costs of education of children chil-dren and the maintenance of criminals was made recently in one of the state's daily rapers. and the figures are republished at the request of educators of this district: It ccsts 5300 to keep a criminal crimi-nal in jail for one year. It costs $100 to keep a child in school for one year. Law violations cost the country coun-try one and one-balf billion dollars dol-lars last year, while education cost two billion dollars for the thirl,- million school children. There are less wn -one million calendar criminals. For every $2 spent in school costs, we spent $1.50 to control crime. Candy, gum and theater tickets tick-ets cost 2.G1 times the education educa-tion bill. The total bill for luxury is four times the education bill. Four per C"nt of the economic energy of . the people of this country is spent for educational purpose:. The- easiest way t cut costs of local government is to cut school cots. It is also the most ftupid and most sliort-sigr.'.'d sliort-sigr.'.'d means. The most often attacked and the least proterted victim of this policy is the school teacher. Most of Die people who are ru.-hinr; into print on thU question ques-tion and acnin-t school cost,-are cost,-are paying le.-s taxes than it takes to school one child for a year, and If the truth were known the same people are probably spending more than that amount for f;a "ollr.e, cheap theater tickets, and what not. |
