Indeed it's not. Which is why I propose a system in which tax dollars are only paid out AFTER some minimum results are achieved. And those minimum results, while very low, are still higher than what 50% of public school students are currently achieving at huge cost to the taxpayers.
Well, agreed there, but why tax dollars at all ?
Health care costs used to be affordable until the gov't got into it with medicare et al. Schools, the same.
Remove government and all regulations, that removes most of the cost, and each can afford his/her own.