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@freemo The US has almost the highest per capita education spending in the world https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd
Universities should be free.
I entirely agree, but because they are not i left that out intentionally.
@valleyforge
@freemo so if you exclude university. Isnt that cherry picking?
@valleyforge
Primary and secondary school are the only ones in the state that is paid for publicly. So no I wouldnt call that cherry picking, they were singled out for good reason. Now if we made university free for everyone too, as we should, then id be happy to include that. Otherwise no, especially in the context of this comic.
@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)