Unfortunately, most people - being public educated - don't really know what that means. It's more like "the world of education" isn't on the same street as you and I, it isn't on the same block. Hell, it's at least two towns over!"
This is because not only did Thomas Jefferson indicate that the states would need to amend the Constitution to give the states the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes, something that the states have never done, but also consider the following.
Using wide language, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that powers that the states have not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds, the specific power to dictate policy for intrastate schools in this example, are prohibited to the feds.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform is the 1983 report of American President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education. Its publication is considered a landmark event in modern American educational history.
From the report: “...If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war...”
The teens indoctrinated by the SDS anti-war college profs became licensed teachers, who have mostly now retired from their missionary dedication to pass on rejection of American principles to our children. They have succeeded, overwhelmingly.
The subsequent generations have followed their lead. Why do we not understand this? Why are we sending our own children off to universities ruled by them?
I’m at LAUSD and yes, yes it is.
Asking forgiveness in advance for what I have posted on other threads for years:
My mother was a typist for the FBI in WWII, and saw the commies plans to take over the USA from within.
A key element was to take over all the education system to brainwash Marxism in young minds from K-highest education - first by taking over the EDU and Journalism departments in higher ed, who would brainwash all future teachers and journalists. In time, 90% of all in education and journalism would be theirs, and the brainwashing of the nation would be almost complete.
They have succeeded, and continue to pump out new generations of dumbed-down Marxist/atheists.
Until someone figures out how to reverse this, our rule of the nation will always be short and temporary.
And I have yet to hear a solution from the best conservative minds there are.
Still waiting........
Both the educational establishment and the “news” media are so far to the left that they consider anyone to the right of the 30th percentile to be a “right wingnut.”