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No, Eliminating the Department of Education Would Not ‘Devastate’ U.S.
Townhall.com ^ | September 9, 2016 | Teresa Mull

Posted on 09/09/2016 7:23:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/09/2016 7:23:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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the DOE has NOTHING to do with education - it doesn’t even teach a single student.

The way to attack it? Student debt. the DOE has literally made millions of Americans debt slaves to their government. And this is not regular debt, this is debt that can NOT be discharged in bankruptcy. You are indentured slaves to the US Government, people. Is that what “the land of the free” is all about?


2 posted on 09/09/2016 7:29:05 AM PDT by PGR88
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However did we survive before the DOE was created in 1980? We must have been a nation of knuckle dragging, ignorant dullards.


3 posted on 09/09/2016 7:30:15 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy ("We will not tolerate those who are intolerant to the intolerant.")
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To: Kaslin

>>a group of self-proclaimed “progressives,”

I can’t take a person seriously who says this. The Progressive Movement has existed for over a century as a growing cancer eating away at the USA. We have a obligation to educate ourselves on this enemy and not to wish them away with quotation marks.

It’s like saying that the red spot on your skin is just a mole, but some Doctor keeps calling it a “cancer”.


4 posted on 09/09/2016 7:30:44 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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Another bloated bureaucracy that needs to be left to the individual states.


5 posted on 09/09/2016 7:33:51 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Hillary- Time To Change the Bag...)
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Yeah the DOE does a great job training teachers with boring PD taught by crusty people who make $200,000 a year and have never stepped in a classroom.


6 posted on 09/09/2016 7:35:07 AM PDT by struggle (The)
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The Department f Education was created by Jimmy Carter as a sop to the Teacher’s Union for their support.


7 posted on 09/09/2016 7:39:11 AM PDT by Newfy
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How many employees?


8 posted on 09/09/2016 7:41:31 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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It is by far the smallest Cabinet-level department, with about 5,000 employees. It has an annual budget of US$73 Billion (2016).
9 posted on 09/09/2016 8:00:41 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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Teachers’ unions as well. Remember the NYC teacher’s union leader who said that he’d only be concerned about the good of the kids when they started paying union dues?


10 posted on 09/09/2016 8:00:54 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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After 29 years teaching social studies in a public high school I can say the 1st best step to improving the US educational system would be the elimination of the federal department of ed.
11 posted on 09/09/2016 8:02:03 AM PDT by fungoking (40% share for a TV show is a hit; in the 2016 election it a loss in a landslide, hello Pres Hillary)
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I saw that coming. And, of course, they claim that the cuts are to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The State and local governments can pay for their schools with the savings of their citizens not having to pay the federal government.


12 posted on 09/09/2016 8:04:58 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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Wow I thought Donald Trump was not a conservative—


13 posted on 09/09/2016 8:05:54 AM PDT by Fast Ed97
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Shut
It
Down


14 posted on 09/09/2016 8:12:22 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Kaslin

Ron Paul made this a Key Part of his Platform in 2008


15 posted on 09/09/2016 8:15:13 AM PDT by vooch
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Property taxes are supposed to pay for schools and education. Where I grew up. 80% of all property taxes were used for education, and that education was notorious for being 2+ years ahead of the national average. When states have to funnel their tax dollars to the central government, not much is left for education. From each according to his ability......right? /not!

Trump’s policies and plans are likely to force a whole lotta change and a shuffling of the cards. We need that.


16 posted on 09/09/2016 8:26:31 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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Eliminating the Department of Education would certainly result in different approaches to educating our children. I thought liberals would embrace such diversity.


17 posted on 09/09/2016 8:35:28 AM PDT by monocle
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To: Kaslin
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”

which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”

which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”

which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”

which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,

which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.

18 posted on 09/09/2016 9:09:44 AM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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The Department of Education is a useless redundancy.

It provides no multiplier of any kind to the education of a child. More than anything else, it’s bureaucracy soaks up money that otherwise could go to states or localities in the form of bloc grants.

If we have a textbook advisor at the local or district level, then there’s little reason to have one at the state level and no reason to have one at the national level.

If we have social services, intervention, special needs, etc., etc. at the local, district, and/or state levels, that is already too much duplication.

The Department of Education is useless. It’s only purpose is the consolidation of power. It is not about getting kids educated.


19 posted on 09/09/2016 10:21:59 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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Revert it and its budgets all back to the states.


20 posted on 09/09/2016 10:43:44 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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