Some folks in Utah showed how little we know about K-12 education. And the errors are not random. People believe we spend less than we really do, that teachers are paid a lot less than they really are, and that our students fare better against students in other countries than they really do.
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Given the responses the spending is clearly not enough 🙂
And who says nobody pays any attention to teachers!
That was good.