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If only we spent the money on schools and social programs instead of prisons and SWAT teams!

• rayiner 12y ago
  Atlanta spends over $15,000 per pupil per year on schools, 50% over the OECD average, and about as much as Switzerland (although, adjusted for PPP Atlanta still spends much more than Switzerland).
  • hyperliner 12y ago
    Spending per pupil is not necessarily the right metric. The net spending accounts for paying for teachers who can't teach, overly priced contracts to the businesses connected to school boards, corruption, etc. It's not Switzerland, so you can't compare.
    • ethbro 12y ago
      Net educational spending isn't even the right metric. Unless we want to agree that spending $15,000 per pupil from a family with an income of $30,000 equates to the same education as $15,000 per pupil from a family with an income of $200,000.