Cutting benefits is controversial, for good reasons. If people plan ahead on the basis of available benefits, sudden unexpected cuts will cause suffering.
It's no good complaining that some of them are 'scroungers'. At least the individuals concerned are benefiting from whatever handouts they choose to take up.
On the other hand, there's sure to be plenty of expenditure within the state education system that's not benefiting anyone, and probably causing harm. Why isn't this up for discussion? Because the teaching profession has too much power. It's part of the state apparatus, but it’s not under democratic control.
Buttressed by Marxist-inspired ideology, the education profession has become a law unto itself. See for example what the NEU, Europe’s largest education union, are saying about the supposedly urgent need to 'decolonise'.
Read more about Marxist ideology in
Power-Mad & Hypocritical.