[rglovejoy]

> If you want to look at per capita spending, the article says the US spends about 668 billion, divided by a population of 321 million, you get about $2080 per capita.

> So if you're calculating it that way, the US actually spends _less_ per capita than Finland.

Nobody is calculating it that way: the US does not have 321 million schoolchildren.

[jacobolus]

> Nobody is calculating [education budgets per capita]

The top-level poster did, in a (hopefully unintentionally) grossly misleading apples-to-oranges comparison:

> U.S. spent an average of $12,157 per student [...] Finland's education budget is €2,100 per capita [...] less than 20% of the spending!