“Where did schools come from, before the Dept of Ed and the NEA?”
I’m not an advocate of the federal government being involved in education, but wintertime wants to get rid of ALL government schools, even if run by a state or locality. And that’s how it happened way back when. The locality (and sometimes churches) decided education was important enough to invest in. But the parents still paid for it one way or another. Kids in areas with no nearby school got either no or minimal education, especially if their parents were illiterate.
I had a great-great grandfather (father’s side) who never saw the inside of a school and couldn’t read or write. My great grandfather could read and write, but barely. My grandfather finished high school and my father was the first generation to go to college.
Not only is the call to close all K-12, but also all colleges and universities, especially the liberal ones, which I would assume would be about 99% of them out there.
Cooperative education efforts are fine, as long as they are voluntary.