Defense Department schools spend nearly double the US public school average per pupil.
Evidence
On top of it all, there’s the military’s single-payer health care system, providing universal coverage to families. There are extensive education opportunities, both online and off. There’s the adventure of living overseas, complete with opportunities for tourism, cross-cultural interaction, language learning, and vacations at military resorts. For “military children,” as the Pentagon calls them, there are generally high-quality, well-funded Pentagon-run public schools. Depending on how one calculates expenses, annual per-pupil spending is almost twice the national public school average of
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Categorization
- ADDENDUM: The catalog of military perks and their costs connects to the framing in the sacrifice essay about who bears the burden and who benefits from state projects.