Money spent on a real education saves far more in the long run when you consider the costs of just incarceration is over $25,000 per yr. per person. (And this does not consider the monetary and emotional costs to the victims of crime.) Money spent on real education pays itself back many times over.
Agreed. The difference seems to be that, you think public schools prevent this problem, and I think they promote it.
I see there's been a thread started where this discussion would probably be more on topic.