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Re:No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching ups... by ef4 on Monday July 04, 2016 @07:39PM (#12033581)
That's simply not true. Per student spending in the US is among the highest in the world.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

We just blow it on administration-heavy bureaucracies and demonstrably failed methods.

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Re:No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching ups... by enraged_camel on Monday July 04, 2016 @08:50PM (#12033801)
>>We just blow it on administration-heavy bureaucracies and demonstrably failed methods.

Not to mention sports. The absurd amounts of money, attention and time poured into college athletics especially never ceases to amaze me. Even at the high school level, many students focus way too much on being "discovered" by talent scouts so that they can get scholarships to colleges they want - grades be damned.

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