Puddle Jumper
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there really isn't a lot of waste. at least in a lot of areas. a lot of schools don't even have money for supplies in the classroom. We had to use goldenrod paper instead of white paper because of budget cuts. Unfortunately many people think that schools are where to turn to make room in budgets. Mainly because not all voters have kids in school so it's easy for them to say they don't want to pay for the schools.
The average cost of educating a student in the US is $10k/year and in many areas it's substantially higher than then yet their students still perform terribly. Surely with that amount of money we should at least be able to provide proper supplies for classrooms. That's what leads me to say there has to be waste, the teachers sure aren't getting much of that $10k and in most cases it isn't being spent on supplies either so where the **** is it all going?
If anything good teachers and proper supplies/books are what would do students the most good so those area's is where the funding needs to go.IMO.