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Put the 14-year-olds on shift after school, put the adults on shift during the day. The teenagers won't have time to do homework but the schools aren't funded well enough to ensure a quality education anyway.


> the schools aren't funded well enough to ensure a quality education anyway

The US spends more per pupil than every other OECD country except for Luxembourg, and exceeds the average by over 50%. If US schools aren't funded well enough, essentially no one is.


> The US spends more per pupil than every other OECD country except for Luxembourg, and exceeds the average by over 50%.

Not accurate in the context you're saying it.

You're probably conflating US K-12 spending (low) with post-secondary spending (high)?

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...

https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...


> US K-12 spending (low)

Your source there still puts US K-12 spending in the top-5 worldwide.

The allocation of said spending clearly isn't optimal, but there is plenty of money at a high-level


Educational spending in the US is individual to the state, and even more locally within school districts within states, so it makes no sense to look at it from a national average


Bizarre; why are their outcomes relatively poor?


Wild guess: maybe most of the spending goes to the school football team?


It doesn’t work that way




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