Even if education just paid for those things you listed, it wouldn’t be so expense. The lions share of any school budget is administrative costs.
Like the Superintendent of schools and his wife the school nurse who both retired on a combined retirement package of $100,000 per year. Way more than mr.mm made per year that we were trying to support a family on.
And that was almost 20 years ago....
It was obscene then and it’s obscene now.
Am I to understand that the COMBINED yearly retirement package is $100,000? For two people? I don't know about your area, but in mine that would be just enough to live on and would require second jobs to afford the niceties of life, l ike eating out on occasion, medical bills (I'm assuming they won't have insurance but Medicaid) Seriously, 100k for two people is not that much - especially for 30+ years of service. Maybe you live in an area where the cost of living is dramatically lower than mine, which would skew my perspective.