In my town the budget for our four schools exceeds, by a lot, all other public expenditures combined.
Yep, “public education” is big, big bucks–so big, no one has dared calculate its total cost to the nation. But here’s one of many reasons why it costs so much. And why we get so little for our money.
Yessir, the Los Angeles schools spent a billion dollars on these little gimcracks. Did the kids get a billion dollars’ worth of smarter? Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Do you ever get the impression that our various governments go out of their way to show how little they respect us?