Good lesson in thrift

My wife and her friends get with each other and brag about their grocery budgets. They brag about how much they were able to bring their grocery bills down by shopping store sales and using coupons. They don’t point fingers at one another arguing who was the “worst” at providing their families with food because they spent less this month than last month.

Idaho isn’t the “worst” at public school spending. Idaho does spend less than any other state, but why does that make it the “worst”? New York City and the state of California spend far more per pupil than Idaho and have worse dropout rates and perform no better on standardized tests. That doesn’t make Idaho the “worst” at public school spending. It might make them the “worst” at funding their state branch of the teacher union.

But, by many measures that makes them one of the “best” at public school spending.

Michael Liljenberg

Spokane Valley