Posted on 02/17/2016 6:18:32 AM PST by kinsman redeemer
Schooling 'too important' to leave to 'unelected bureaucrats'
Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says that, if elected, one of his strategies to return America to its constitutional moorings would be to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
"I don't think the federal government should have any role in education," he said. "I am a constitutionalist, and I have spent my entire adult life fighting to defend the Constitution and fighting to defend the Bill of Rights. We ought to block-grant that money, send it back to the states, send it to the local governments," he said in a recent radio interview with Mike Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association.
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Cruz outlined his hopes for the country.
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The Department of Education isn’t actually about education. So I agree. It should be abolished.
I totally agree! It was a creation of Carter. Get rid of it.
Yes. It was a stupid Jimmy Carter Idea anyway.
Too many low-info voters out there would interpret
the headline as “abolish education”.
Absolutely!!!!
I'll bet they have their jobs ringfenced by their unions etc., and it will be impossible to get rid of a single one of them.
The Dept of Education doesn’t have anything to do with actual education, it just redistributes the ignorance.
Staff it with conservatives and use it to purge the liberals from the education system in america.
If you simply destroy the Dept. of Education, how will you get rid ot the liberals who are entrenched?
Absolutely! And do something like making it local.
And just to head off something that might be dropped on this thread, I'll add this:
Ted Cruz, Homeschooling, S.306, Dishonesty and Pig-Ignorance
"..What is circulating now is a story that Ted Cruz supports the federal regulation of homeschooling. There are two underlying causes of this story: rank dishonesty and pig-ignorance....
Enter Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and S.306 and proof that no good deed goes unpunished. The bill itself is very, very simple:...
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This non-troversy is being driven by a variety of Trump friendly websites, but even RedState is not immune to this cretinish #ouchebaggery ( here | here). Note that this bill is being defended by the Home School Legal Defense Association. That, alone, should tell you that the Trump-ish critique is dishonesty on stilts.
This is not an argument about the Constitution. It is not about the role of the federal government in education. It is a very simple concept. The Coverdell ESA is a federal program that could benefit homeschooling families. The current definition of whom is eligible to participate omits homeschooling families making use of that program potentially risky. The Cruz-Lee bill, S.306, simply includes homeschooling expenses as an eligible expense, it does not create a federal definition of homeschooling."
Then "educate" them.
Thanks back.
S.306 is discussed in the interview.
I urge everyone to listen to the interview.
I am going to start off here saying that I am totally for killing off most of these bloated federal departments, including the DOE.
That being said, using this language is general election poison. Like, instantly fatal poison. Trump focusing on Common Core is a much better strategy here. The way Cruz is selling this, he would be pummeled over the head with it mercilessly by the Dems, probably very effectively. Many Democrats and Independents hate Common Core, but will be scared off by rhetoric that, quite frankly, makes it sound like Cruz is a comic book villain who hates children.
I thought this was dumb when Perry did it, it’s dumb now, and it will always be dumb. It’s a self-inflicted gunshot wound to a candidate’s electability.
By eliminating the department?
Right now, the font of liberal ideas is at the top of the chain. The waters of political correctness, social experimentation and engineering, and test-means education flows directly out of Washington D.C.
Want to know why kids aren’t failed, kids aren’t held back, and kids aren’t required to be educated? It’s because all funding is based on kids moving forward through the system with no regards to if they actually are learning everything. Those requirements, and that funding, all come from the Department of Education.
Kill it.
Agree. Don’t forget to imprison and torture all those who pushed Common Cra...er...Core on us.
Really...torture.
And that is precisely how every outlet of the MSM would report it.
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