without digging into the numbers, i can pretty confidently say that schools are more than 30% more expensive than the global median in the US. staffing costs especially.
The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?
Submitted 2 days ago by chunes@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
boaratio@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Capitalism.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is socialism thinly disguised as capitalism.
Archangel1313@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Because they’re already spending $15/student on basics. Anything extra isn’t covered. The problem isn’t that they’re being over-funded…it’s that they’re under-funded.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
That’s $15,000 not $15. The answer is schools are corrupt fronts for contractors who milk the district of every dollar. Construction, service, demolition, and reconstruction of buildings is expensive!