The Weather Underground radicals started to take over the Democratic Party in the 1970s, and they also started becoming teachers to indoctrinate the children.
Those seeds finally grew, and it resulted in their boy, Obama, getting into the White House.
It is hard to make a list of Carter’s evil deeds in a Hierarchy wickedness, but creating the Department of Education would be near the top.
The justification for the departments creation was that US students were not achieving up to international standards and that the USSR’s students were achieving more.
After the DOE started ’helping’ the downward slide only accelerated.
Things like mandatory Sex Ed and New Math came out of the DOE to help loosen the morals of the country and make it necessary to import engineers from Leftist nations.
It is hard to accept that all of this is the responsibility of a nerd that wore cardigan sweaters inn the White House.