Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Public school here is of course free - even illegal immigrants are admitted to public schools at tax payers expense, the issue is that the quality of public education in the US has been sliding downhill for the last 4 decades or more while spending as the solution continues to increase at a crazy pace... hence public debate about allowing tax payers to use that same money to send their kids to private schools which completely crush public schools in terms of performance and other solutions.

First and foremost, the problems with education are cultural where parents are increasingly absent from their child's education in the US and with unions, where bad teachers can't be fired and so on, the important issues won't be solved by government or spending.