Reply #13: Part of the problem

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is that people don't trust the bureaucrats to apply the funding in a responsible way. We've clearly learned from history. I think the schools need more funds, but the people at the top who allocate those funds do so from a place of ignorance or greed. More funds should result in things like smaller class sizes and that's not what happens. If we could be assured that the funds would be used in ways that have been shown to benefit the actual children in the classrooms instead of just giving more to the people at the top or middle managers, I'd be all for it, as would most people.