Originally posted by Gadiantor
I don't see how you draw the conclusion about money from the comparison of cost of home schooling to public schooling. Comparing the two is comparing apples and oranges.
It is pretty simple really. If a home schooled kid has $500 spent on his education and this kid CRUSHES a public school educated kid who had $6,000 spent on him, clearly money is not the important factor. If money were truly the most important factor, and therefore we needed to spend more on public education, then the $500 home schooled kid would show some degree of suffering as a result of less money being spent.

Add to the fact that in real dollars, education spending has increased 2000% per capita since the 1960s, along with dramatic DROPS in literacy and graduation rates, it seems pretty obvious that spending more money is not the solution. There is not a lack of money being spent on education.