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We spend more than Europeans but get way less in return. We should just wholesale copy a system that is working like in Finland and scrap what we have, as it's

• midoridensha 4y ago
  >We should just wholesale copy a system that is working like in Finland and scrap what we have, as it's not working. That's impossible. Americas have a pathological amount of NIH syndrome: they are utterly and completely unable, as a society, to look at anything outside their borders and learn from it.
• theironhammer 4y ago
  It's administrators who eat up the money. Teachers in Canada earn higher salaries than USA yet spend less per student that USA does.
• taurath 4y ago
  Maybe its not about economics and cost and more about priorities as a culture. Start here: * Teachers should be paid a living wage * Teachers should get overtime pay for working overtime * All schools should be funded such that there are equal standards of teaching, classrooms, recreational activities, etc for the same size school throughout the country * Nurses should be paid a living wage * Nurses should be maximized at 50 hours a week with no shift going longer than 12 hours. All of those things seem literally impossible given the systems that are in place right now, but to me they're just like basic common sense, and lets not forget when the systems we have were set up nearly all of them existed. We've just backslid from the time we were the only country that was left functioning after WW2.