There are ~23,500 high-schools in the country.[a] If the US had allocated, say, 10% of the $8T cost of the "war on terror"[b] for math education, each public hi

There are ~23,500 high-schools in the country.[a] If the US had allocated, say, 10% of the $8T cost of the "war on terror"[b] for math education, each public high-school would have had an additional $34M in its budget -- more than enough to hire multiple amazing math teachers at each high school, drawing only from the top 1% of college graduates, as in Finland. [a] https://nces.ed.gov/FastFacts/display.asp?id=84 https://nces.ed.gov/FastFacts/display.asp?id=84 [b] https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar