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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by jessriedel on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:20AM (#29330784)
> To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds.

That doesn't sound right. This page says the UK spent 31 billion on pre-primary and primary education in 2020

https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk...

(If that has a paywall, try googling for the info, which is how I was able to view the page.)

Please help me understand the discrepancy or edit your comment.

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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by tcskeptic on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @02:57PM (#29334379)
Its not right -- there are about 4.6M primary school publicly funded students in the UK.

Source : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The UK did not spend 173 pounds per student for a year of education -- the 30B cost leads to per student spending of about $6500, which is starting to approach a reasonable figure.

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