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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Can you point to data that backs that up? As much as we like to mock it, the American education system is actually not that bad. It’s not up to Western European standards, but it’s middling by OECD standards, and better than a lot of countries that have much lower crime rates.
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Wouldn't the U.S. numbers be boosted by the private institutions that are only accessible to the wealthy? I think if we looked strictly at public education, the U.S. would probably be much lower, and if you examined the areas of the U.S. with high crime rates, you would probably also find underfunded public schools.
The question would be whether the high crime rates are a result of said underfunding, or if the high crime rates drove money out of these areas.