There is a difference between an education system and what we have now under the guidance of the federal government.
Back in 76, Jimmy Carter established the Federal department of education. Supposedly it was to improve our education systems.
What it’s done is to take us from being midpack worldwide in terms of test scores and pushed us to the bottom of that list.
The failures of our government- run education system are so obviously prevalent as to make statements about how education is improved under the control of the federal government laughable at best.
We’ve now reached a point in our National History where Johnny can’t read his diploma but he’s all over the subject of man-made climate change, and how evil capitalism and the white man are.
I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who observed that the natural state of government is growth. Certainly, the undue influence of the federal government and the educational system has grown over the years including those years prior to the establishment of the Federal department of education.
There are some who will argue that this takeover has not affected what are laughingly called higher education establishments. But let’s look closely at the ivy league as a prime example of the results of the federal government’s intrusion.
Since Woodrow Wilson infested the White House, we have gone from teaching Latin in what amounted to Junior high School, to teaching remedial English in what these days laughingly passes for college.
I’ve said it before and will say it again:
The worst mistake we ever made is a country, a culture, a people, was to turn the education of our young over the government.
