The Department of Education is another executive agency that makes laws apart from Congress. It is run by appointed (not elected) bureaucrats. These bureaucrats push agenda over true education.
The Federal government needs to get out of the education business. Since its inception, the “funding” has raised costs across the board and improvement is undetectable. Our nation educated some of the best and brightest long before the Department was established.
Through the abuse of the commerce clause of the constitution, the Federal Government has grown well past its established powers enumerated in the Constitution. We need to return to the spirit of Article 1 and the 10th Amendment. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Education is NOT a power delegated to the Federal government.
Cutting spending will hurt, but removing perverse incentives can return focus to students and teachers, rather than programs, policies, and administrations.
I was a teacher in public education and I left a very good paying job with job security because public schools care more about federal funding than teaching our children. I am speaking more about the administration than the teachers. Bring education decisions back to the states, there is NO ONE WAY for all kids to learn, common core is BS. The focus on new curriculum or innovation is a lie that stems from federal funding…
Similar story, I was also a Public school teacher and was burnt out by the bureaucracy at every turn. I was in NE Kansas and the corruption along with bullying of threats toward teachers to be a member of their corrupt NEA as well as children being denied basic supplies like paper and pencils was beyond repulsive. I second everything you said and yes the so called new Curriculum is just gaslighting as they literally recirculate curriculum and simply change the name over and over again with no visable improvement for the children’s education.
I’d go a step further to say that along with dismantling the Department of Education we should leave Educational decisions entirely to the children’s first teachers, THE PARENTS who have cared for the children knowing them far better than anyone else ever could. If we offer communities of helping others to assist parents then any concerns will resolve themselves more often than not. All States should follow the model of freedom in Educational decisions like Alaska and Texas and maybe even better than that as we help one another sharing the knowledge we have to build up our communities.
Wow so nice to know someone who has the same passionate understanding of how corrupt public ed is. All we ever worked on was curriculum, my professor in college told me while getting my bachelors that I should go into curriculum that’s where the money is. ick I didn’t go into education for the money. Thanks for reaching out people who haven’t worked public ed don’t get it, we so need to bring education back to the states and get out of federal funding game. You hear of the convention of states? check it out conventionofstates.com article V of constitution Nancy
I want to ask something. Since Trump announced that he wants to eliminate the dept of education, what does he mean. What does this entail? I live on the Apache reservation, and they are very scared that this will hurt them badly. They believe that they will be cut from funding and they believe that Trump will stop them from educating their people from traditions and their language. Im also concerned. But they do believe that Trump will destroy their culture
@Jared_Fleming Initially, the funding cut would hurt. Communities would have to truly evaluate their current course and cut out a lot of programs. But, they would be free to educate their children in their values instead of being forced to conform with national standards and jump through hoops to get the money. A student can get an amazing education with very little money.
But im specifically concerned with the native people. They believe Trump will destroy their culture and not allow them to learn their language and culture from their local college and schools
That’s exactly what eliminating the Dept. of Ed. would prevent, so I’m not sure where that fear is coming from. It sounds like a scare tactic to manipulate their voting, because if federal government is out of the education business, the control returns to the states and people. The people who have the power to hinder native studies are the local school boards, college boards, and state departments of education. And the Governor appoints a lot of those bureaucrats. So the school board and state elections are going to effect their education way more than the presidential election.
Through the abuse of the commerce clause of the constitution, the Federal Government has grown well past its established powers enumerated in the Constitution. We need to return to the spirit of Article 1 and the 10th Amendment. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Education is NOT a power delegated to the Federal government.
I will show you this. This came from the head tribal chairman of San Carlos apache. And this was my concern. Tell me that they dont have to worry as they are now
This is political rhetoric. Loss of federal funds does not mean loss of education, it means funding with new and more local ways to pay for the desired education. When the Federal government gets out of the education business, costs will go down and freedom will go up. The tribe doesn’t need anything from a president, except to leave them alone to govern themselves, separate from being manipulated by the “expert” bureaucrats.
I feel the same toward coming across your post, very nice to find a fellow survivor of the indoctrination camps. I also went into Curr. Dev. & Leadership for my Masters not realizing the brick wall i’d hit as the two world’s collided. The gap between college and pub. Ed. Is so vast that the only real solution is to get rid of it entirely. I’m all for attempting to go back to the one room school house family style structure but the students today couldn’t transition to that. It seems only best to scrap it all and let families figure it out through private schools and boosting home school options for all Americans. Thank you for the link, I have heard of it but its been awhile since I went through it. I taught in North East Kansas how about you?
