Parts of government, but particularly education in America, have actually achieved negative marginal utility - every dollar spent actually makes results WORSE.
the reason is clear - every extra dollar keeps alive a bloated, political and dysfunctional bureaucracy, which eliminates any other options.
Is there any saving of schools in Chicago or other big cities? Or is the best thing to do to blow it up? And start over?
So they’re saying that Chicago has some of the highest expenditures per capita in the country.And they get some of the worst results.
We’ve often heard liberal types lament how schools just don’t have enough resources to do the job, and they say that the lack of resources is the reason why schools have such problems.
And we all know there are things we’re not allowed to say about these problems. For example, we are not allowed to say anything about inner city ghetto culture, which derides students doing well in school as acting white.
So then we’re reduced to having debates about how much money or resources would be needed to adequately teach children. And we discuss how do you get quality teachers in troubled schools. And other side issues such as this can be discussed. But we cannot confront other core problems.