That’s not a lot of money to educate and essentially house a child for several hours per week for most of the year. School is a prison. It’s dumbed down to facilitate the majority, conservatives keep cutting funding for paras and counselors, and some of these kids have real trauma in their homes. We’ve also cut recess, art, music and several programs that foster innovative thinking and traded that for rote memorization and testing. Most countries abandoned that model years ago because it doesn’t work. Those kids are being kept all day so their parents can work 2 or 3 shitty jobs and they know it. They also know they may not have much of a future, because adults have failed them horribly.