Poor Grade School Results

                          

My comments often criticize colleges and college student deficiencies. But never overlook the poor job of the American public school system, and its poor kindergarten to 12th grade education record.

                                   

Real dollars spent have more than doubled in the past forty years as teachers unions have gotten stronger. The number of teachers have increased by more than one third. Yet less than 40% of students who graduate are ready for college level. And, of course, do not measure up to international standards.

           

A solution is possible, in the form of charter schools where union rules are somewhat relaxed and school vouchers. Here funds allocated to public education are set aside for parents to use for private school tuition.  (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)