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Financial Cost to Schools as a Result of Poor Social Skills

While we are aware of many non-financial negative effects from inadequate social skills and character development, schools also incur hard and soft dollar costs because of issues with student discipline and behavior management. This page allows you to enter actual or estimated numbers for your school or district and calculate the financial effects.

Enter the numbers for your school or district below and click the "Submit" button to calculate totals. For a public school or district, the amount of money spent to educate a student is readily available. If you don't know the actual amount dedicated to teaching (the category we use to conservatively calculate student discipline impact), feel free to estimate the dollar figure and enter it in the field provided.

To change your numbers and see different results, enter your values and click "Recalculate."

To get more information on how SocialSmarts programs can help your school reduce discipline issues and regain some of these valuable dollars lost, click "Get a Quote" when you've completed your calculations and a SocialSmarts representative will contact you.

Plug in Your Numbers

Organization Name:
Cost to educate one child in your school for one year: $
Cost allocated to teaching activities: $
School size:
Percentage of time spent on behavioral / discipline issues:
(including classroom management, major/minor discipline actions, anti-bullying efforts)
%
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