Time to End the Department of Education

The Department of Education is a complete failure. The thought that the education of our children should be planned by a central authority is ridiculous and insulting.

The Moral Debate

Perhaps the above statement sounds crazy to you. With Federal money comes federal regulations and federal control. Local schools must adhere to the mandates of The doED in order to keep the federal funding coming in. These mandates can decide everything from the curriculum, the books schools choose, the faculty they employ.

Why should a local school be micro managed as such from a centralized self proclaimed know it all group? Why is it in our interest to have federal interference and control over the education of our children? Does it not make much more sense to allow local governments to decide on the education of the local students. Doesn't the doED assume that parents will not seek out the best education for their children.

The stated goal of the doED is to provide equal access to equal education. Though this is a lofty goal, the problem of the system lies in who decides the best education? Do you elect your doED leaders? Do you ever hear what their goals for your children are? Do you have a chance to hold them accountable for their failures?

The Economic Debate:

Despite greater and greater funding for the Department of Education, Education has actually not improved for our children.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the standard for measuring student achievement, between 1970 and 2008, scores have basically remained level. Some years score go up a point or two, some years they go down a point or two.

If the Department of Education was making a positive impact, would scores not be rising? Billions are wasted every single year supporting a failed program that actually hinders free thought and homogenizes education.

In a nearly 40 year period, Math, reading, and science scores have not improved and the 75% of student who enter 9th grade and complete Highschool within for years has stayed the same 75%.

So we are throwing billions of dollars at a problem and not seeing any solutions? You would want to keep this insanity going?

The Constitutional Debate

The Federal Government has no authority to regulate and subsidize education. The Feds can not spend money without first taking that money. The checks and balances of the constitution are meant to prevent large centralized government dominating control over local and state governments.

The tenth plank of the "Communist Manifesto" reads: "Free education for all children in public schools"

The communist felt to best way to change the opinions of a country was to start early by controlling the education process. It is sad to see this transpire here in the United States under the guise of reform and progress.