Didn't Joe S invent an alternative fact this morning?

[rogerashton]

He said we in the US spend more per pupil than any other country. I don't think that's true. Any data?

[Kolesar]

1. Maybe because the dollar is so strong

Twenty million to build a school goes much further anywhere else in this hemisphere.
Considering that Germany has "free" colleges, I doubt his claim though.
Just musing here.
:caffeine:

[doc03]

2. According to this he is right.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-global-list-study-shows/

[octoberlib]

3. I missed that but Harold Ford Jr. was bending over backwards to defend Jeff Sessions.and saying how

the Democrats are obsessed with what happened 30 years ago. WaPo recently had an article on how Sessions orchestrated the immigration ban and that he was the leader of the white nationalist movement in DC. Ford is an absolute disgrace.

[Bohunk68]

4. Why oh why is any Progressive Democrat still watching

Dead Intern Joe Scum? And that twit Ford?

[octoberlib]

5. I normally don't but my TV was set to MSNBC when I turned it on this morning.

I had to finish watching Ford Jr. make a fool of himself.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. why does anyone watch him? why do people watch any of them? it just feeds what they

are after - attention and ad revenue.

Turn them all off! Please!

[Cha]

7. Don't forget the brainwashing. I hear your plea.. I turned them off

in November 2002.. and never looked back.

I'd say I'm more sane because of it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. I turned them all off in 2007 - and feel the same (of course, it is all relative...

and a matter of opinion!).

[Cha]

10. I know it was making me crazy all the propaganda for

the war they were pushing. Messing with People's Lives for Profit. It killed the nbc reporter, David Bloom, 39 years old, to name just one.

And, it's only gotten exponentially worse.. until someone came along worse than they are and are calling them the enemy. They seemed to have straightened up a bit. Except for joe and his ilk But, I won't hold my breath.

2007? wow.. that's good!

[BSdetect]

8. There is an argument that we do need to keep a watch on them.

[exboyfil]

11. Roll in the sports programs

I don't think most other OECD countries spend that kind of change on sports programs.

Here is a list of other countries that spend more (secondary but tracks with primary):

Country


Secondary per-pupil spending

Austria $13,607

Luxembourg $16,182

Norway $13,939

Switzerland $15,891

United States $12,731

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/apr/21/jeb-bush/does-united-states-spend-more-student-most-countri/

Traditionally the United States spends big parts of its educational budget on non-instructional items such as security -- more so than some other nations.


Here is another article about spending on sports.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case-against-high-school-sports/309447/