[JRandomFreeper]

My not very big city is spending almost half a billion dollars a year on education, it is mind boggling. School spending is out of control.

Way out of control. I hired some local boys for a task (old enough to drive). It required a little bit of just regular math. They couldn't manage it. They couldn't understand it after I explained it to them.

Those kids are ruined for reality. How do you build a State or a country with kids that can't do basic math?

/johnny

[editor-surveyor]

> “How do you build a State or a country with kids that can’t do basic math?” <<

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I’ve had to slog through a project with 2 guys that had BS in engineering One from Tex, one from Colorado), but couldn’t do math beyond plain arithmetic. The US is in big hurt academically.
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[jospehm20]

I think we would all be much better off if we privatized the whole thing. Government does not do education very well.