Schools As We Know Them Are Becoming Too Costly

The cost of running schools has become too costly. One of my professors in graduate school made a statement that shocked me about our education system. He said that school buildings will become so costly that he thought there will be a day when schools will no longer have buildings from which to educate our kids.

As time goes by, I think that he may be right. It is costing a fortune to build and maintain our school buildings today. The costs of staff salaries, building upkeep, and all the other expenses that go along with running our schools is huge.

State governments have become financially strapped lately, so education and new building funds have been cut tremendously from many state government budgets. So, funding is going to be an issue for the long term in education.

He mentioned that he thought there will be education kiosks that will be placed in malls, businesses, and public buildings where students will receive their education. Since then, online courses have become a commonplace, and many online colleges have emerged on the internet.

Home schooling has become more popular lately. Curriculum is becoming easily accessible to parents at home because of the internet and video on demand services. This has caused a small exodus of students leaving school buildings for an education at home.

Transportation and field trips have become casualties of budget cuts. Parents have become the transportation to athletic events and field trips.

So, many are educating their kids at home with the internet and taking field trips on their own to libraries, museums, science centers, art exhibits, and theaters for the arts.

Somehow our current education system is going to have to go through a revolution to stay in business and find ways to educate without bankrupting the system.