[abeppu]

Well, we also seem really bad at managing education. There has been a huge increase in the number of non-teaching staff (i.e. administration) in schools. At the same time that we wring our hands over class sizes, a growing proportion on dollars spent ostensibly on education go to stuff that doesn't happen in the classroom. We can "barely afford" stuff when we let a whole industry of nonessential stuff graft itself onto the thing we actually care about.