Posted on 02/21/2015 5:28:22 PM PST by dontreadthis
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson pushed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) through Congress, a $1 billion program to help poor students and less fortunate school districts.
When he signed the bill into law on April 11, 1965, LBJ stated that he believed that “no law I have signed or will ever sign means more to the future of America.” If he meant a bleaker future, his prediction has certainly come true.
Even before the days of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the federal government had been worming its way into the education systems of the individual states. In 1953, President Eisenhower, less than two months on the job, re-organized several agencies of the federal government into a new Cabinet department – Health, Education, and Welfare.
But it was Johnson who began a large-scale intrusion into education, an all-out effort that has not abated in half a century. And since those early days, the federal role in education has only grown, both in terms of its size and scope, as well as its cost to the American taxpayer.
From the ESEA to the Department of Education to No Child Left Behind, the new Common Core program is just the latest, and by far the worst, federal intrusion into American schools. Senator Mike Lee has rightly labeled it the “Obamacare of education,” a plan that will result in “the DC takeover of our school system. It will dumb down standards and cheapen the education our children receive.”
It will cheapen the education every American receives, no doubt, but it certainly won’t be cheap on the pocketbook of the taxpayers, if history is any indication. In the last 40 years we have seen a 375 percent increase in federal education spending with no sign Washington will stop anytime soon.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
[ELIMINATING COMMON CORE AND THE FEDERAL ROLE IN EDUCATION.]
More appropriate headline:
ELIMINATING COMMON CORE BRAINWASHING AND THE FEDERAL ROLE IN THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICAN CHILDREN IN ALL PUBLIC EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF BROWN SHIRT NAZIS.
Yep.
It was bad enough when we home schooled 25 years ago.
Scary to think the moronic crap I saw and dealt with then has gotten much worse.
An honest reading of the Constitution would render the Department of Education both unconstitutional and meaningless...but honesty no longer commands respect.
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes, Johnson needed to do the following before signing the ESEA into law. He needed to inspire Congress to propose an education amendment to the Constitution to the states.
And if the states had chosen to ratify Johnson’s amendment then Congress would have had the constitutional authority that it needs to decide policy for intrastate schooling purposes and Johnson would have been a hero.
LBJ...one of the worst presidents we’ve ever had.
LBJ, yeah, I vote for #3 on the list of worst USA presidents of all time,
common core, appears to me to be for the express purpose of creating a dumbed-down manageable electorate,
Indeed
I regard it as a scam that’s most direct intention is to have the federal government control education completely- a concept that should be anathema to all real Americans. One of the first the Nazis did was to nationalize their schools.
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