<p>There are places where spending needs to be increased at the K12 level, Xiggi. Technology being one of them. However, unfortunately, increased spending in and of itself, unless it is intelligently done, helps none of our students on this globally competitive world. </p>
<p>All that said, and back on topic, the increase in administrative spending at the college level, pensions at the state level, and decreased spending on actual instruction, makes me leery of the whole industrial-educational complex being funded by the future earnings of the next generation.</p>