Id say this sums up america pretty well.

@freemo The US has almost the highest per capita education spending in the world https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd

@valleyforge
Not even close. Per capita we are 32nd in our spending on primary education, and also 32nd on secondary, even mexico has us beat

https://www.statista.com/statistics/238733/expenditure-on-education-by-country/

As a percentage of gdp we are even worse in 66th place beaten out by even cuba.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_on_education_(%25_of_GDP)