Ping to betty boop’s excellent post 20 addressing public education.
I know it’s preaching to the choir, but Screwtape Proposes a Toast is a classic.
OH SO VERY TRUE, dear sister in Christ! It was written some 50+ years ago. And I daresay it was prophetic....
And so I hereby "propose": There is no just rationale for "public" education in the first place. The federal Constitution doesn't even contemplate that. Therefore, abolish the Department of Education.
The DoE hasn't got any constitutional authority to "educate" anybody. Not even Congress has that power.
Since Jimmah Carter founded the so-called Department of Education, our national test scores have steadily plummeted, in the areas of mathematics and science especially, in comparison with those of competitor nations. Meanwhile, it's costing the federal taxpayer a fortune, each and every year. All to spread the most anti-social, irrational, and pernicious doctrines, designed to undermine civil society from within, from the get-go.
Or so it seems to me. Thanks for listening to my rant, dear sister in Christ!
And thank you ever so much for your kind words of support. Yes, it was about public education! And Lewis is glorious on this subject!
JMHO FWIW
Here’s a 16 yr. old gal who just had a ‘unified’ schools prayer removed from it’s walls....her photo appears pretty smug IMO, but the article is interesting when you read how she came about taking this thru the courts.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46160046/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/