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School is easy, the point of it is more to learn social skills.

Believe it or not, it’s not easy for many people. Be careful about making such sweeping generalizations based on your personal experience.

Half of all the people in the world are below average. I know, it's crazy right? Confirmation bias makes us expect others to be like ourselves, but they are not, and you're going to have a bad time when you expect them to be like yourself. This is probably going to sound harsh, but it's true: Children and teenagers innately sneer at others that are not like themselves (so much bullying in schools). Part of maturing as a person is to learn that other people are different and have different needs. Many people don't learn this, and they seem immature as a result, and they are ineffective at dealing with other people.

We must spend 30-50% of state budgets, monopolize children’s time, and expose them to violence and drugs so they can learn to socialize.

We don't spend 50% of state budgets on primary/secondary education.

It does if you consider the part going to your county:

“In 2022, the federal government spent … This is 13.6% of the total spent on elementary and secondary education in 2022. The remaining funding comes from state and local governments, which contribute 43.7% and 42.7%, respectively.”

You've misread that. It is not saying that 43.7% of the state budget goes to elementary and secondary education. It is saying that 43.7% of the funding for education comes from the state. Those are completely different.

No. If 20% of the state budget is then that amount is matched by an equal part local. So state + local education would be 40% of the state budget.

education (property tax) dominates local spend. So yes we do tax and spend extraordinary amounts on education.

20% of your money and 20% of my money is not 40% of our money.

The most recent number I could find is from 2021, and on average, states spent 21.5% of their budget on k-12 education.

The state and local pay about equal portions. But do you have anything to say about the argument in my comment?

Was there an argument? Lots of places in the world have state-backed top-notch free education, without the guns and violence.

What argument?

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