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Left Behind

- James Howard Kunstler -

Perhaps Secretary DeVos's primary purpose will be to dismantle the Dept. of Education. Woo Hoo! Stop wasting money on ineffective education that really is just warehousing and indoctrination. Let parents decide what is best for their children.

The flight to the suburbs that you have often decried, and forecast its demise, was largely fueled by families' desire to raise their kids in a better environment than the blighted inner cities. Better schools was a huge part of that. The Dept. of Ed. managed to ruin that by ensuring that no child got left behind. The only way the government can ensure that no child is left behind is to hold everyone else back. The greatest must not outperform the least. A very altruistic socialist ethic.

I think teachers, the ones who care about teaching not a paycheck, will welcome deregulation. They will no longer be told by the government what they can and cannot say, what is appropriate. What standard of education is required to pass a class. Teachers will be set free to teach the kids who want to learn, and expel those that disrupt the process. (And these teachers will get paid a heck of a lot more in a private system than as government employees).

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Beginning of the headline : By her public utterances, Betsy DeVos seemed spectacularly unqualified to lead the bureaucratic enterprise called the US Department of Education. But you really have to wonder: could she do any worse than the exalted mandarins of educational bureaucracy who preceded her? There is so much not right with public education these days that it could be the poster child for institutional collapse in America. Certainly in terms of the money spent per... Read More

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