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To: SilentZ who wrote (195448)	7/23/2004 9:00:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572711

That site is ridiculous. Where did they get their statistics from? LOL!!!!! You say THAT without even a shred of evidence to back your position?????? Maybe the same place these guys did. Despite nonstop whining to the contrary, the truth is that public schools receive a fairly large amount of money for each child. And that amount has been rising steadily for the last few decades, easily exceeding the dollars spent on defense. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Education, public schools spent $8,830 per child nationwide during the 2000-1 school year. This is up from $4,626 thirty years earlier, using 2000-1 dollars. To put this $8,830 spent per student in perspective, the median household in the U.S. earned $42,151 in 2000. Schools may want to have bake sales because it is a good idea to get families involved in their schools, but it is difficult to say that schools are woefully under-funded. By comparison to the funding given to education, the Air Force might actually need to have that bake sale to buy another bomber. In 2000 the Department of Defense spent $295 billion versus $392 billion spent in 2000-1 on public elementary and secondary education. That doesn't even include the amount spent on higher education or spent in the private sector. If we total up all of these education expenditures, we find that $700 billion was spent on education during the 2000-1 school year, which represents more than 7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. The Defense Department, by comparison received 3 percent of GDP during 2000. Even with the more recent increases in defense spending as part of the war on terrorism and even with the much-bemoaned cuts in education spending during the current budget crises in many states, we will continue to spend more than twice as much of the wealth our nation produces each year on education than we do on defending ourselves against foreign threats. nationalreview.com So are you going to keep repeating the same baseless charges because they please you or do you actually intend to try to prove your case?