They started doing this stuff a long time ago, although not to the degree they’re doing it now.
The trouble started when the public school system started. We submitted to a crippling tax so that “everyone can learn to read, write, and do math problems.” Noble ideal. (Not really. A national school system is doomed to fail and cost everyone a whole bunch of money in the process. But think of the children.)
So they get their foot in the door with a noble idea. Today, this idea is “everyone has a right to health care!” YAY!
Those who are wise enough to turn and look at what “education for all” has become started causing trouble and bothering their Congress critters a long time ago. Some have gotten into trouble, which is what happened to this unfortunate gal.
But in the midst of all emotion, try to think clearly: This “paying for noble ideas” situation is just getting worse and worse. What happened to Ms Bishop won’t be all that unusual in - probably - less than a year from now. What the Powers are saying to us is “Shut up and keep paying, or this is what you’ll get.”
Under 0bamacare, your taxes became astronomical. Things were just starting to get a bit under control - at least tolerable - under a GOP President. (Trump, for the short of memory.) Now we’re getting hit again. This time, it’s jackbooted thuggery “for the children.”
The DOE/public school system is no longer feasible. It is a complete waste of tax dollars.
Many folks, more fainthearted and less sure than Ms Bishop, will note these violent attacks and change sides. They won’t want that happening to their children who are NOT being home-schooled and have to deal with the milieu. (Yes, people including liberals chanting “eff j0e b1den” and so forth - they still hate us, you know. They cheer for things like cops getting shot, too.)
End the DOE. Does that sound impossible? The future will be impossible to exist in if we don’t.
No doubt you will be flamed, so this:
I am old enough to remember the one room schoolhouse my mother attended in the days before the first world war. It is gone now, but it still stood in the late 1950’s.
My father attended a similar one in the adjoining county.
Both one room.
When they left that school for high school they both had beautiful handwriting and a better education by far than 8th grade students of today.
I don’t remember where, but somewhere along the way they were introduced to French, Latin and a love of country that does not exist today.
Lots of money, federal money, can not replace the kind of people who taught school in those days.