| mrstickball said: America has a massive systemic issue with schools and regulation because of both state and school government. It yields worse results at higher prices. You say Britian has less of a problem, and I fully agree. They spend less on their schools and get more than we do. Heck, we've had recent TV documentaries on French schools which have trained chefs who make healthy food for the kids - yet they spend significantly less per student than we do. |
This is true. The beauracracy is so bad here. That's why it costs about $47,000 a year to house a prison inmate in the United States. Just look at this crap: http://www.ehow.com/about_5409377_average-cost-house-inmates-prison.html
Yet we say to ourselves... shoot, $47 grand? It doesn't cost me half that much to live on my own, so where the hell is all that extra stuff going?
Same with our schools. Same with just about every government regulated department. Everytime dems scream at the top of their lungs for repubs cutting funds from schools, saying things like how can we do this to our children? Our test scores are so terrible because we dont spend enough bla bla bla... We want to throw more money at the problem. And everytime we do that, it NEVER works. Because the schools never see the money.
BOOM! FACE KICK!
