Jimi77
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IMHO adding private money into the equation is disingenuous. The comparison should be per pupil spending in the public sector. Spending isn't a good comparison, ie (what if) Ireland doesn't count the money spent on mentally challenged students in the education budget and we do? What if Ireland is more willing to spend on mental health issues than the US, etc.I thought you were thinking along religious lines as the reason we would eliminate evolution in school. We have an accountability problem in America. No one is responsible for their own actions, especially our spoiled weak children. Of course, our system is really about money and power, not creating critical thinking adults. Between public AND private money (liberals love to compare government funding here to socialist countries where private money isn’t used), we fund our schools per student more than any country in the world by far, yet our teachers have to beg in the streets with “red for Ed” signs to get more pay. it seems like their is a black hole that ***** in money somewhere in the school system causing teachers to buy their own school supplies and whine to the public about the lack of funding while simultaneously working in the richest education system in the world. But I suppose that’s probably all just conspiracy and the real problem is that we just havent thrown enough cash at the problem, since that’s the way to fix everything in this country.
There are lots of problems in the US - $hitty parents who don't believe Johnny could possibly do anything wrong, the lack of proper spending/facilities for kids with mental/behavioral disabilities, crappy policies, drugs, political agendas, crappy teachers, crappy students...