People who say U.S. public schools are “underfunded” have no idea what they are talking about.

wordpress.com ^ | July 13, 2012 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

The United States is tied for first place with Switzerland when it comes to annual spending per student on its public schools.

[EGPWS]

The United States is tied for first place with Switzerland when it comes to annual spending per student on its public schools.

That's underfunded, we should NOT be tied with anyone!

[cripplecreek]

A good teacher could teach in a barn with the materials she found there.

[yarddog]

I remember Pat Buchannan debating someone about money spent on education. Buchannan showed the amounts spent per pupil in Washington D.C. in around 1950.

Then he showed how much at the current time and adjusted them for inflation. The difference was astounding. Also the quality of the schools went from great to horrible.

[Joe 6-pack]

"The United States is tied for first place with Switzerland when it comes to annual spending per student..."

I really doubt that, but I'm willing to bet we far and away lead the world in "annual spending per school administrator."

[andyk]

A good teacher could teach in a barn with the materials she found there.

Well said, my friend!

[Forty-Niner]

That great sucking sound is your tax dollars leaving your wallet for the coffers of a public employees union and their minions......crush the unions and bring accountability back to the education workforce, our future generations deserve no less!

[Maceman]

For those who wonder what's wrong with American public education, here's a clue:

In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”

which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”

which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”

which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”

which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,

which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.

[Semperfiwife]

The same can be said for teaching methods- phonics gave way to whole word which gave way to semi-phonics, meaning spell it how you hear it, to what we have today- spell it how you text it, think it sounds or not at all. No one cares anymore if things are spelled correctly, including the teachers themselves.

[dragonblustar]

People who say U.S. public schools are “underfunded” have no idea what they are talking about.

its not about teaching the children, its about keeping the liberal agenda and the unions well oiled.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Quick and dirty test a few years past showed a significant negative correlation between money spent per pupil on education and achievement test scores in various countries (Korea had the highest scores per one of the lowest amounts spent if I remember correctly) - just sayin’......