Despite the highest spending in the Midwest Wisconsin 8th graders can't read well. What do these teachers to with their students all day? Obviously not teach them what they need to know to even live life effectively. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/two-thirds-wisconsin-public-school-8th-g
More money doesn't equate to better education. It's just more wasted money. <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bx4pN-aiofw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
with each generation there's more to assimilate in those short 12yrs..then it was 100 yrs ago or 500.
For instance, the quantity of scientific knowledge, as measured by the number of scientific papers, has been doubling approximately every 15 years since 1900. If we measure simply the number of journals published we find that they have been exponentially rising since the 1700s, when science began. http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2006/02/the_speed_of_in.php how much MORE have you learned how much knowledge acquired since high-school? seriously? your honest answer would be a dismal amount compared to your forced feeding those years. now how do you feel about it?
It's all relative to other schools and other countries. The Wisconsin school system is falling behind in regards to other midwest school systems and the U.S. school systems are falling behind the rest of the world. Something here isn't working right.