Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Agassi, never graduated from high school.
I knew there was some reason why I liked this guy! What is all this talk about education being the "mossstt important thing", that dropouts are "condemned to being hamburger flippers", blah blah blah. For that matter, why do we employ truant officers (bounty hunters) to drag fugitive kids back to the school plantation? Agassi's career would have suffered from being drafted, just like Clay's.
If Agassi wants to operate a teaching business, he should NOT mooch off the taxpayers. Those rich-kid tennis schools in Florida don't receive public funding. He and Steffi are quite capable of funding their academy out their own pockets.
Regarding that statistic that Agassi spends "twice" the amount per kids that public schools do, that is just not credible. Public sector accounting is always fuzzy. Next term's direct state contribution will be $5,251 per kid. CCSD receives 1/3 of the local sales tax revenue. Then there's property tax revenues, miscellaneous public/private grants, etc. Commenter Patrick always posts a public education spending figure much closer to Agassi's number.
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