Keep in mind not all those kids will go to school for 4 years. But let’s assume they do. Here’s a 10 year cost plan:
Year 1: 2,125,000 (85% of 2.5M) kids will cost $8.5 billion
Year 2: 4,625,000 kids cost $18.5 billion
Year 3: 7,125,000 kids cost $28.5 billion
Year 4: 9,625,000 kids cost $38.5 billion
Now year 5 will add another 2 million, but 2 milliion will also graduate, so years 4 - 10 are “the same” amount of kids. Of course HS grad numbers will rise, but for our simple math we’ll just say everything stays stagnant.
The cost? $325 Billion for, or an average of $32.5 billion per year.
In 2007 we spent at least $93 Billion on the war in iraq.