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The only solution I ever hear from the current government school bureaucracy is that they need additional funding.

The charts I showed you indicate that funding isn't the issue. We are spending three times the amount per student, in constant dollars adjusted for inflation, than we were 40 years ago. People educated prior to that time had built one of the most advanced technological societies on the planet, and were getting ready to put a man on the Moon. The Federal Department of Education didn't even exist.

During those 40 years, in constant dollars, teachers' salaries have gone up by approximately ten percent. You tell me where the money is going.

It seems fairly obvious that centralized control is the problem, not the solution. It's amazing that you can see so clearly the problems of monolithic "one-size-fits-all" solutions in things like colonizing space, but not in many other human activities.

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