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Cake day: March 11th, 2024

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  • I assume you mean it costs money directly to the end user. Even when there is free public schooling, it costs money - it’s just that someone else is paying it. In most cases, the government is paying for it using revenue they collect from taxes, fines, and other levies.

    It costs money because people expect to be paid for their labor (teachers, administrators, groundskeepers, construction workers, repair people, janitors, textbook authors and publishers, IT workers, trash haulers) and products (building materials, books, computers, lawnmowers, mops and brooms, gasoline).