I agree with the BS meter here.
We educated 3 last year on a cost of $1921 TOTAL including: English, math, science(s), arts, music, 2 Languages, supplies, our State information, Geography, History, Budgeting/Accounting and Logic.
We paid taxes for other children to go to school ($9,240 per annum is the amount for each child in PS for our county).
I guess we missed the Rhetoric-PC-feel good section of the Educational process.
How many special needs students?
What kills public schools is the demands placed on them by special needs students and all state and federal hoops you have to jump through for them.
Busing, accessibility, extra aides, psyschologists, etc. That stuff adds up.
Find out where your local school district teaches its TMI students. Go to that classroom. Count the number of teachers and the amount of equipment in that room. Then divide that number by the number of students. Tell me what you get.