Eliminating federal intrusion in education: Parents are fed up with indoctrination in government schools and citizens are suffering from inexcusable debt accumulation

American Thinker ^ | 12/02/2023 | Sheri Few

[SeekAndFind]

Earlier this month, Moody’s Investors Service slashed its outlook for the United States’ credit rating from “stable” to “negative” pointing to economic risks including high interest rates, the government’s steadily growing debt, and political polarization in Washington.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, updated projections show a federal budget deficit of $1.5 trillion for 2023. By eliminating the federal government’s intrusion in education, annual government spending could be reduced by $725.8 billion. Not only could Congress dramatically cut the deficit, reducing debt in the long run, they could demonstrate political will and cooperation by collaborating to remove the unconstitutional federal encroachment on local education decisions.

The time is right. Parents are fed up with indoctrination in government schools and citizens are suffering from inflation, high interest rates, and inexcusable debt accumulation.

Serious conversations are happening throughout the country about the legitimate and effective role of the federal government in education. Many on both sides of the political aisle agree the federal government has become unreasonably intrusive and ineffective in education policy and practice. Some states are even beginning to look at weaning themselves off the federal dole.

Spending for education in the United States has risen dramatically in recent decades. Federal elementary and secondary discretionary spending under the U.S. Department of Education (USED) rose to $692 billion in 2022. This is in addition to the $9 billion in spending by the Department of Health and Human Services for Head Start and the Department of Agriculture’s $22 billion for Free and Reduced Lunch. The Department of Education has an administration budget of $2.8 billion and employs over 4,000 people.

Despite dramatic increases in federal intervention and funding in the public education system since the 1960s, educational achievement has not improved.

[No name given]

I for one am fed up with both leftist indoctrination in schools and inexcusable debt ignorant folks ring up, expecting others to bail them out!

[Paladin2]

Tuition loans need to be outlawed.

[Liz]

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[wny]

The federal government should have nothing whatsoever to do with education. The word “education” appears nowhere in the Constitution.

[Dick Bachert]

[ProgressingAmerica]

So fed up that precious few people show up at school board meetings and there are no protests anywhere, save probably 1 or 2 that I simply don’t know about.

If people were fed up, there would be evidence. We would see people rallying.

I don’t see much evidence.

If people are sitting around, waiting around for the next election then they aren’t really all that fed up about it.

[Cen-Tejas]

1,741 1,692 1,394 1,644 1,336 1,070 1,068 1,310 1,122 1,130 865 755

.....here’s some evidence. The above listed numbers are schools closed per year between 2010 and 2022. The total schools closed is 15,127.

This is according to a chart compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Here’s a link: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=619

[lightman]

“Free public education” began roughly fifty years after our War for Independence, and it was only grudingly accepted because our forebears knew that such “free” education would come about only through additional taxation.

[Aevery_Freeman]

It worked just fine when it was between a bank and a student.

Now it is a government program that largely goes to rent and drugs for the "preferred recipient" class.

[ronnie raygun]

The education scam has put American families in debt and then the feds took it over and now continue making money from its hosts

[Vaduz]

The Department of Education needs to be eliminated it it the major problem with education it promotes programs the do more damage to the children’s mind then helps it.

It’s no mystery where all the dangerous anti American comes from.

Stalin would be proud of the system make the tax payer pay for reeducation and grasp communism.