Darmok wrote:
I would look forward to the abolition of the federal Department of Education, but I fear the tentacles of that parasitic organism have grown too far into the body of the country to be easily removed.
Why get rid of it? Without it, there are those schools in less than progressive states that would begin teaching that the Civil War was about states rights, would throw out evolution in favor of a simplistically literal interpretation of the Genesis account, would teach religion in school - a fundamentalist Baptist type taught at the expense of all others, etc. The Department of Education isn't perfect, but they might as well be compared to the sheer ignorance that could sprout up if education is left to the local level.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer