[ExCTCitizen]

For most of you in the New Confederacy of the South and West, if you secede you will end up paying more in taxes than you do now, and you will get fewer government services.

So?? Where in the constitution does it say we need to have a FEDERAL Department of Education??

[elkfersupper]

For most of you in the New Confederacy of the South and West, if you secede you will end up paying more in taxes than you do now, and you will get fewer government services.

When I secede, I will not pay any taxes and the only government "service" I want is to be left alone.

[momf]

I sure don't like the Dept of DUMBING DOWN AND CORRUPTION we have now.... Mother-in-Law started teaching at 17, kept it up for 45 years...pretty good teacher. Lunchroom our son went to (in a country school so he could have his grandmother as teacher) the cooks cooked meals like they did at home - hot bisquits and gravy, fried chicken, etc.

If anyone had a problem, they went to school, principal was always available...problems worked out, none of the sensitivity training going on now was even thought of! plus, we all tried to live UP to the standards, not down so no one would get their feelings hurt.

By the way, I blame a lot of our school problems on the lack of PTAs - and that came from the people - not government.