Another gift from Jimmuh...
...the iron rule of bureaucracy applies: Once created, it is devilishly difficult to get rid of one of these things.
Posted on 05/04/2020 3:24:47 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The poster on the office wall is faded, but not so our memories of the day it commemorated or the struggle to make it happen. Monday, May 4, 2020, marks the 40th anniversary of the official opening of the Cabinet-level U.S. Department of Education. It was a historic day in the history of public education in America to be sure, but it was also a special day for us personally as we, working for President Carter, had both been intimately involved in crafting and passing the legislation that created the department.
The time has passed when the federal government can afford to give second-level, part-time attention to its responsibilities in American education,” President Carter said while signing the bill on Oct. 17, 1979. “If our nation is to meet the great challenges of the 1980s, we need a full-time commitment to education at every level of government -- federal, state, and local.”
But giving education a seat in the Cabinet Room did not happen easily. It came, instead, after a tough legislative fight, one involving aggressive lobbying on both sides, as well as intense and bitter turf battles. The politics of turf brought together strange bedfellows from the right and the left, and eventually cost a prominent Cabinet secretary his job. The hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” put the turf politics of our nation’s founding to music: “No one really knows how the game is played. The art of the trade. How the sausage is made…you need to be in the room where it happened.”
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Another gift from Jimmuh...
...the iron rule of bureaucracy applies: Once created, it is devilishly difficult to get rid of one of these things.
F Carter and DOEd.
“A day....that will live in....INFAMY!!”
May it be your last one as well. 8>)
Kill the Dept of Education.
Then drive a stake through its heart.
L
Yes, time to dismantle it and the other two agencies Rick Perry couldn’t remember.
Is the nation in a better position if we remain able to re-shape the Dept. of Ed, or if we close it?
That’s good. lol
Agree - shut’er down.
Ask most average Americans and they’ll tell you the Dept. of Education plans what America’s schools do, hires and pays teachers, and is indispensible to children’s education.
Then “So you don’t pay any local public school money in property taxes?” “What? Of course I do. And extra for the band or other stuff, too.” “Then you are paying, not the federal dept., right?” “Never thought about that.”” What then exactly does the Dept. of Education in Washington do for your kids that costs so many millions a year?” “Nothing.”
I was educated over 40 years ago, so, what do I know?
Enough said...
All rhetorical questions right?
C L O S E . I T
Education has been circling the drain ever since.
Sure has.
Think of the worst things about education, and you can track
every one of them back to Carter’s enduring ignorance.
couple of depts can be close.
1. education
2. epa
3. commerce
4. hhs alongwith /cdc, nih etc
5. energy
6. fbi (corrupt cops)
7. cia (military intelligence is enough)
Check out Tip O’Neil flicking off his dandruff.
F-all of the Alphabet Agencies. Most are worthless and redundant.
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