“to fix the deplorable mess in public education”. Sounds a little like the Vietman era, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” Because the objective is to destroy public education and replace it with private education that the GOPe can better control.
My objective is to give parents the power to select their kids’ schools. This will improve education through natural free market choices. As far as control is concerned, it properly rests with the parents, through school choice, -and not with washingtonDC or any political party Right now the parents have set little choice in most places as the far left AFT/NEA/DNC dictate what the kids are taught. They are not learning much at all about American history and political theory (only socialist or communist dogma) and the instruction in science, mathematics, English, critical thinking and research skills, and business/ economics/ finance are all usually deplorably deficient. True kids “graduate” unable to do anything except sign up
For welfare -