Anyone who says insert complicated thing is very easy has abandoned any pretence of reason. Educating other people is in fact actually very hard.
Other countries eat much of the cost of health care and education. We have to pay people enough to cover both. There is also a complicated apparatus to deal with to meet federal obligations and get federal dollars that doesn't magically go away if you get test scores up.
You have started with a very large number entirely made up with no intent to justify it. There is virtually nothing to disagree with because you haven't bothered to justify it not even so far as to add up the costs of incentives and see if the cuts you propose equal the incentives you propose.
No, I said education was fundamentally not that hard and explained what I meant. You can't just declare that opinion "abandoning reason". We have been doing it, at cheaper cost, for decades as do other countries around the world. This is only an insurmountable problem because people profit off our current system and ideologues prefer siphoning state money to friendly political groups over educating students efficiently or well.
As for doing some math - of course not. I'm not in a position to make any of those changes and they would be politically impossible any way. The system will continue to fail as it has been and there's no point worrying about that. Instead of figuring out the details of proposals that will never be considered I'll just focus on making sure my kids can go to private schools.
Other countries eat much of the cost of health care and education. We have to pay people enough to cover both. There is also a complicated apparatus to deal with to meet federal obligations and get federal dollars that doesn't magically go away if you get test scores up.
You have started with a very large number entirely made up with no intent to justify it. There is virtually nothing to disagree with because you haven't bothered to justify it not even so far as to add up the costs of incentives and see if the cuts you propose equal the incentives you propose.
Do some math and come back.