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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter
How many do-overs does the Federal Government get? The DOE has been, realistically, in existence since 1980. Are our schools better or worse than prior to that year? That is 41 years of wasted $$$$ going down a bottomless well with no real return on investment. Every year should have been a do-over.  |
Without arguing over efficacy or semantics like the above, let's try it this way:
What, exactly, makes you think anybody at all on a local level of government is qualified to dictate educational policy? And I don't even mean "more qualified" than somebody else - I seriously mean, for the average community, what about the dopey, slow, limited, and largely ceremonial governments of most towns and suburbs makes you think THAT is the group who really needs more money and power pushed toward them?
And if you instead want to discuss the state level ... States puked all over themselves trying to spend stimulus funds, then cried when they didn't get more. Many state governments are run by part-time state legislators whose qualifications were "Put Up A Lot Of Signs In Yards." That's your solution? Give them more stuff to do, more money to blow?
Sorry if I'm non-plussed at the concept of removing the DoE in favor of essentially this plan:
1. Move money from idiotic bureaucracy to smaller, less experienced idiotic bureaucracy.
2. ????
3. Profit.
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