</font><font color="blue" class="small">( The European education model is to spend the greatest amount of money on the children that will get the greatest educational benefit. This is why many of the worlds children are scoring higher in math and science than American children. They put the greatest resources to the group that will receive the greatest benefit. )</font>
Don't want to get too far off topic, but I keep hearing how good Europe's and other country's educational systems are compared to the U.S. There is no doubt we could do better, but as bad as it is here, it is the United States who stays on the cutting edge of science, technology and medicine, far ahead of the rest of the world. So we may not have the high "average" math scores but our best and brightest outshine the rest of the world.
With that said, we could spend our tax dollars far better if we eliminated property tax all together and replaced it with a consumption tax. That way our private property will no longer be a target for greedy politicians to assess in the name of "education" and the "children". With a consumption (sales) tax system, everyone must pay with no exemptions. That is the only fair way to collect taxes.
Back to the schools. Why is it that the private schools here in my community provide a superior education to the government schools for an average of $5,000 annually but the government schools spend twice that? The answer is accountability. Take politicians out of the equation and costs decrease while quality increases. It is simple really, but we have managed to make it difficult on ourselves by placing the responsibility of educating our children on a government bureaucrat instead of taking personal responsibility for our own children's education. And then we gripe about the sorry results.
