Explain how Finland can kick our ass up and down the street. Even after accounting for differences in population, we are still spending more per person on education than Finland yet we aren't placing even second in the various fields. Where is our money going? Apparently it's not to the schools. Where teachers take pay cuts, furloughs, and in general stay poor and in debt for a dam long time and where the class sizes just keep increasing. Hell, just today I read about how a teacher had to make paper protractors since she no longer could require students to buy them for the class.