The median wage for a food service worker — the amount he makes in a whole year, before taxes — is about $22,000. Your local public school gets paid about that much for each child who attends, whether the child learns anything or not.
In contrast, the Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) gets paid about a third as much. More importantly, it gets paid, not for the hours put in by students and teachers, or for the bureaucratic hoops they jump through, but for results that they obtain.
If the kids don’t learn, the school doesn’t get paid. Just like the rest of the world, where you get paid when you finish the job.
Why doesn’t every public school have to operate that way?
