Great news!
Secretary DeVos is not bashful, the NEA will be going ballistic by now.
Don’t get too excited. I’m sure there’s a federal judge out there ready to rule this unconstitutional. Unconstitutional how or why? I have no idea. Doesn’t really matter.
Mr. President, here is my report on where the federal government has overstepped its authority in public education: “The Department of Education. I recommend disbanding and permanently terminating it.” Signed, Betsy DeVos
PS. My report was delivered 299 days early.
We Americans, of every color and race, need to step up and take responsibility for our children, NOT allow the state to do so. PARENTS are the TEACHERS of our kids. Schools are the educators of our kids. We need to keep government out of TEACHING our kids but hold the responsible for their EDUCATION. There is a BIG difference between teaching and education.
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Everything that Washington does concerning education oversteps its legal, i.e. constitutional, authority. Close the Department of Education.
WOW!
Something for homeschoolers to be aware of.
And it is well past time.
Having a department of education in the first place - get rid of it. Do I win a lunch with the president now?
RNC needs full time ads trumpeting this fact this
President Thomas Jefferson had officially indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution in order for Congress to have the power to dictate policy, tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling, something that the states have never done.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Additionally, Pres. Jefferson and constitutional lawmaker Rep. John Bingham had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the federal government.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
The reason that the unconstitutionally big federal government now has its big, unwanted nose in intrastate education is this imo. The 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments gave corrupt lawmakers a way to exploit low-information voters.
More specifically, career federal lawmakers get themselves elected and reelected by promising such voters financial assistance for school, such voters evidently not understanding that the states have never given the feds the express constitutional authority to tax, spend and dictate policy for intrastate schooling purposes, evidenced by the Jefferson excerpt above.
To not only get the constitutionally limited power federal government out of the affairs of the sovereign states, but also to make the president’s vision for MAGA last for many generations, it is recommended that Pres. Trump lead the states to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Bravo, Mr. President.
MAGNIFICENT!
That is like going to a state college where you do your own room and board.
That is a helluva lot of money being spent that when kids graduate from high school they can't read past a 4th grade level nor write legibly nor fill out an application for menial employment.
And then they are also taught how to fornicate with abandon and they also know where the closet Planned Parenthood center Is.
For 12 years plus kindergarten, that is a grand total of $104,000 per student FOR NOTHING.
One area the government overstepped: forcing common core on everyone.
He slid this by when everyone else was chasing the laser dot...lol
Good, however, getting all students into high-security high-quality private schools is better.
Government schools are always going to be indoctrination camps.
It is time for competition in education.
Let’s start with sex education by LGBT groups under the guise of bullying.
This is very big. The K-12 socialist propaganda machine must be dismantled. Our daughters are in their 20’s and although we deprogrammed (mostly successfully) them and taught them critical thinking, the disinformation they were exposed to in the public schools is real. The public school teachers are teaching in lock step the socialist curricula that they receive from the far left Ivies.
I can attest first hand that their generation has largely bought the lies being disseminated by the K-12 public school disinformation factories.
Conformity is expected. For example if you know that abortion takes a life and dare to make an argument against it, your peers will ostracize you and ridicule you. This is real and if it is not fixed, we will lose the next several generations who will end up being indoctrinated into becoming socialist materialist atheists.
The peer cohorts of our daughters probably are in 90% agreement with the socialist doctrines they were taught - the evil white man, the evils of America, evolution and global warming as proven truth instead of theory, etc.
I wish the insidious Common Core had been a Day One priority. Secretary DeVos needs to do deep research on this mess—must get beyond the benign sounding buzzwords.
She should also follow the money...see who has major investment in Pearson Co. which has contract for curriculum. A certain low energy GOP candidate comes to mind.
Obama’s Race to the Top was a funding mechanism, and it also brought student data mining, and the socially-engineered discipline ideas that effectively brought the law enforcement stand-down in Parkland/ Broward Co. FL.
!!! YES !!!