Posted on 02/24/2018 7:38:53 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
When the US Department of Education was created in 1980, American children were second only to Australia’s.
Now they are 17th.
It’s high time to give control back to the individual states.
Alabama’s teacher’s retirement fund, Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), is worth billions and billions of dollars. They’ve owned US Air, shipbuilders, resorts, real estate, golf courses, newspapers, several TV stations around the nation, the largest/tallest buildings in Alabama and so much more.
I know teachers that retire in their 40s. The ones that got their masters (usually paid for by the state) get even more. They get months off in the summer, every holiday, and every benefit you could imagine. Yet every year they tell us they need more money for education.
I will work until at least 67 or when they bury me. They don’t need my sympathy.
The federal government should not be involved with education. The more the federal government gets involved with education, the worse it gets.
Perhaps the books could be covered in Kevlar or have Kevlar pages to deflect bullets.
Yes, great points
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