[the_sleaze9]

As I understand it, USA is one of the highest funded education systems in the world. Funding for education even outpaces USA's um.. robust defense spending.

The trick is to look into total funding - beyond federal funding and into state funding.

I strongly agree that education in the internet age needs to evolve. I would love to see an education system centered around critical and entrepreneurial thinking, financial literacy, Cognitive Behavioral thinking tools. If you give kids something worthwhile they'll use it and come back for more.

https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/how-is-k-12-education-fun...

[shrimp_emoji]

But it's also one of the biggest countries in the world.

It's simply too big and undeveloped for education to work as well as in, say, Switzerland. See also public transportation.

[willcipriano]

It's near the top per student as well.

[bombcar]

Rural schools often do better than urban schools, so size and transportation are likely not the reasons.

[newaccount7hhhf]

The dude knows that. Can he have possibly used this argument in good faith. No. Can we call it out on HN without the conservatards flagging it. No.