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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Oh yeah.
We spend something like $5,000.00 a student annually (depending on the school district) for education, while we spend $40,000-50,000.00 per criminal to warehouse non-violent criminals in prisons.
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That's because the parents pay for cloths, food, housing, etc. If we look at overall school income vs. student, and add in State costs from welfare, housing projects, tax breaks, etc... per student, I bet it starts to equal out more, that's before adding on the parents bare costs.