At 75 NYC schools, all the students in at least one grade recently failed the state math or reading tests .
At roughly a quarter of city schools, at least 90% of students failed the exams.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/75-city-schools-excel-failure-article-1.1915473
That is the price of a nice private college per year - tuition, room and board, plus airplane trips back home to visit the folks.
Over the course of K thru 12 the price can be somewhere close to $400,000 per student.
All taxpayer money, that is from us.
$400,000 would easily put anyone through medical school.