Put education back at the community level. We don’t need a Teacher’s Union. We don’t need a Department of Education. Washington politicians needn’t trouble themselves with this issue. Concerned parents will make sure that children are educated properly right there in the communities where they live.
If you haven’t gone $150K in debt to get your Womyn’s Studies degree, you are not qualified to run the Dept. of Ed.
You know what’s really heartbreaking? There was a voucher program in DC and it was a smashing success. The kids loved it, the parents loved it. Predominantly minority children were benefiting, their grades went way up. Psychologically, they were healthier. Not having bullets whizzing past your head all day will have a salutary effect on your concentration. The DC program was a model.
Then, Obama got elected. Over the cries of the parents and teachers, he killed the program. The heartless bastard sent those children right back to gang infested hell holes.
This was some years ago now, and I still feel rage when I think about what Obama did to those little kids to please the almighty unions.
I wish and hope you are right about that. Unfortunately, it seems to me that about half of families in America today don’t give a runners damn about their kids education. That is part of the reason teachers unions are so powerful and education is so poorly run. It’s been that way for two or three decades. My two sons were so underserved in public school that Mrs Afterguard and I put them in private school we simply couldn’t afford. Maybe the EdSec can make public schools better, or private schools more affordable to working families.