I'm not talking about college. I'm saying elementry schoole through highschool. From a governmental standpoint spending on education is an obvious win. Your spending moeny to upgrade the next generation of tax payers into little tax payers with higher earning potential.
I disagree. The national statistics are 2/3rds of education is spent - as far as you can track it - on administration aka paying ex-gym teachers to be administrators. Locally we had a 1/2 penny per $100 land tax passed (imposed?) in the late 70s to collect in an account to pay for new Buncombe County schools to be built instead of having to raise bonds for them. Here's the punch line: they keep raising bonds to build county schools, and no one in county government will answer you about where all the money we are taxed on has gone.
I sent my kid to the city school system for a reason. They get all the thug black kids (not a racist comment, black people all over the planet hate African-Americans as a
culture and not because of their race), but if your kid is remotely intelligent and/or tries they segregate the classrooms(on merit) and focus most of their effort on those kids. My kid doesn't shine as bright as I do, but believe it or not that's actually a good thing.
OK, I just realised I'm drunk. Damn you Jordan, I'm kicking your ass the next time you come to Asheville.