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0 pointsYarickR25y ago0 comments

Spending in general is not a universal or meaningful metric to measure quality of education, details matter. Huge sums spent on school security/meals/transportation do nothing to increase quality of schooling compared to countries where all those measures are unnecessary (safe urban environments with parents able to feed kids by themselves)

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umanwizard5y ago

> Spending in general is not a universal or meaningful metric to measure quality of education

Right. Are you agreeing with me? Is this not my entire point?

> Huge sums spent on school security/meals/transportation

Any numbers on what fraction of school budgets these typically are?

krapht5y ago

I can't be bothered to break out Excel to tally up the numbers, but here's a link to a typical suburban school district budget if you want to run the numbers yourself:

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FY-2022-Supe...

AlexTWithBeard5y ago

But if not spending, how else could "the country" care about the children?

Or you're saying that no amount of money can replace a caring parent?

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