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[quote=Anonymous]Here look, there’s a story published this week about how we pissed away $107 billion in Afghanistan, on schools made with glass atriums that the locals literally couldn’t open because they had never seen the doorknobs before. And the schools sat empty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-corruption-government/

The whole DC education budget, charter and DCPS, is less than three billion per year.  Depending on how you calculate the wasted money in Afghanistan (the 40% estimated to be lit on fire by corruption, or the 60% actually spent on the empty schools), you could double the DC ed budget and provide amazing STEM education at Wilson and new middle schools for Shaw and beef up the PK and avoid the coming budget crunch and attract the best teachers available, for 12 years or for 30 years.  Just on Afghanistan alone, and on that one contracting initiative.

We just waged two wars that, to be very frank, were useless wastes of money and our kids’ lives.  Imagine if we had spent that money on education.[/quote]

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