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But if (in the U.S.) you hollow out and defund the public education system

This has not happened: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending




If it's increased, it hasn't scaled with population. Reagan was well known for cutting the Department of Education's budget[0], and the public school system in Florida is abysmal. In places like that, it's implied that, if you remotely care about your kid's education, you enroll them into a private school[1]. A lot of those are Catholic, too. No wonder the right likes them.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/14/education/reagan-record-i...

1: https://time.com/5885106/school-reopening-coronavirus/


If it's increased, it hasn't scaled with population.

This is just not true: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_236.55.a.... One might call it "misinformation".




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