Posted on 04/12/2010 10:10:21 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
American public education, a perennial whipping boy for both the political right and left, is once again making news in ways that show how difficult it will be to cure what ails the nation’s schools.
Only last week, President Obama declared that every high school graduate must be fully prepared for college or a job (who knew?) and called for significant changes in the No Child Left Behind law. In Kansas City, Mo., officials voted to close nearly half the public schools there to save money. And the Texas Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum playing down the separation of church and state and even eliminating Thomas Jefferson — the author of that malignant phrase, “wall of separation” — from a list of revolutionary writers.
Each of these seemingly unrelated developments is part of a crazy quilt created by one of America’s most cherished and unexamined traditions: local and state control of public education. Schooling had been naturally decentralized in the Colonial era — with Puritan New England having a huge head start on the other colonies by the late 1600s — and, in deference to the de facto system of community control already in place, the Constitution made no mention of education. No one in either party today has the courage to say it, but what made sense for a sparsely settled continent at the dawn of the Republic is ill suited to the needs of a 21st-century nation competing in a global economy.
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Public education worked a lot better BEFORE we got teachers’ unions and the Department of Education.
Then they should end the local funding of schools. Otherwise this will become another instance of taxation without representation.
Guaranteed to create a huge, stifling and expensive bureaucracy and a population ignorant as billygoats.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Public schools should be abolished. They have outlived their usefulness.
“American public education”
Solution:
“American Education”: If the kids aren’t in it, the schools go away.
More fundamental transformation. No thank you.
Don’t tell me...”Commerce Clause”, right?
btt
Then we should call them what they are - indoctrination centers.
New York Times shilling for total federal usurpation of education ping.
Simply Explanation
obama a student of before ‘no child left behind’ ...
clinton - pass them on, no matter if they grasped the curriculum or not -— failing a child effects their SELF ESTEEM ?!!
President Bush - No Child Left Behind - a 1st grader will learn to read
obama the workers don’t need to read
Unfortunately, even those old enough to be instructors or teachers now were also FEDucated in those schools. So many of them are tainted against God and Country. Too bad the states didn’t consider this drastic outcome forty or fifty years ago when some of us were trying to bring it to their attention. Of course, they knew. They were Progressives even then. Local control was unacceptable to them. A fine, firm education can only thrive under local control!
Christians need to pray in God’s Own Will for all those in authority in education that they will be given His salvation, as Saul was saved. He became St. Paul. If it can happen to a ruthless tax collector, it can happen to educators, let alone presidents, and Congressmen.
Christians must augment their children’s schooling, and enridh their belief system exponentially. It is time for parents to take back the rearing of their children!
that’s been their goal ever since the day Jimmah announced he was forming a Dept. of Education
New York Times shilling for total federal usurpation of education ping.
Based of course on the fact that’s how European countries with 1/10 our population do it
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