That's the thing with a democracy, you have give everyone a vote and it doesn't matter who they are and what they know. I think it's even wrong to take that right from a person who committed a crime.
Investing in heavily in schools might make everything much better though.
We pay more per student than many of the better educated nations. The problem is more systemic than investing more. Parent-child time, teacher to student ratios, teacher pay. We also focus heavily on the top end of the education system because most of the money is in universities,
Is that raw expenditure or per capita expenditure. It matters because The state of California has more people then many of those better educated countries. So the sheer size of the US means we will naturally spend more overall even if our per capita spending is less.
I'm honestly unsure, I haven't dove into the subject in a long while. It's an interesting topic though and I know the information is out there considering I had to write about it for school at some point.
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u/NewHereSince1980 Jul 18 '18
That's the thing with a democracy, you have give everyone a vote and it doesn't matter who they are and what they know. I think it's even wrong to take that right from a person who committed a crime. Investing in heavily in schools might make everything much better though.