Originally Posted by Mar Tweedy

Spending on primary education per pupil is much lower than spending on secondary or tertiary education despite primary education being the best way to prevent long-term unemployment, poverty.

Living even that aside, how can it be that in some schools there is no sign the boom even happened as kids sit in their prefabs.

Even the latest OECD report (in which Irish spending on education was lower than most EU countries), the figures were artficially inflated by mistaken figures given to the OECD by the Department:



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