The American Education System

[ItsjustMe]

[Klaralven]

1. I'm not sure money is the problem.

In 2017, the US spent $12,800 per student on public education, which is the second-highest amount spent per student of any country in the world. But when it comes to total spending, the comparison isn't remotely close. According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the US spent over $700 billion on public education in 2017 alone. To put that in perspective, you could add up the total GDP of Finland and Vietnam and you still wouldn't hit the amount the US spends on education.

But despite all that spending, the US has struggled. Pew Research from 2017 found the US ranked 38th in math and 24th in science when compared against 71 other countries. Only two decades prior, the US's education system ranked 6th internationally.

https://www.insider.com/how-much-countries-around-the-world-spend-on-education-2019-8

Although maybe when you take out varsity sports and school busing costs, the instructional part might be underfunded.

[CousinIT]

2. This is exactly what I've been saying: our decimated, defunded public education system..

....is partially to blame for this. It's not the entire problem by any means, but it's certainly part of it. They've been defunding public education in America for 50 years.