2007-01-03 13:28:10 · 13 answers · asked by GOP - Going Out of Power 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Newt Gingrich in the 90s seriously thought about getting rid of the department of education. I don't think that's a good ideal.
2007-01-03 13:34:39 · update #1
Hmm, I think that is one area that the individual states can take care of on their own. So it is possible to eliminate that department entirely, I believe.
2007-01-03 13:40:07 · answer #1 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We certainly should. First, education is not one of the specified powers of the federal government (Article 1, Section 8). Because of that, the Tenth Amendment prohibits the federal government from involvement in education.
Look at the state of education in the US today. We are at the bottom of the barrel. Virtually every nation is ahead of us in education. I can't see how this is not intentional. But weather or not it is, obviously the people running our educational establishment are doing a terrible job. Don't you think American kids deserve a better education?
Many parents send their kids to parochial or private school, even though they are forced to pay for the public schools. The public schools today are the most dangerous place you can send your kids.
It wasn't always this way. When I was a kid, there were no metal detectors, no security guards and the teachers ran the classroom. The public schools today are a sick joke.
2007-01-03 15:25:39 · answer #2 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure should
Public education started declining 2 years after the formation of the Department of Education
2015-02-18 08:59:33 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I think the more recent system proposed by the Bush administration which is a performance based system ... is good.
In other words.. schools who want the Federal goverment to give them money to subsidize them have to show that they are measuring up and actually educating kids who go there.
There needs to be a Dept of Education for that. I would imagine there is alot of waste (money wasted) in every department of the goverment though.
2007-01-03 14:08:18 · answer #4 · answered by sociald 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well as a teacher and know what a nothing job the department of education does I would rather see the money used to balance the budget and balance and if possible pay down the national debt.
Good Luck!!!
2007-01-03 13:32:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes education should be left to the states. Federal involvement in education leaves tremedous power to manipulate children. Public education is better charecterized as public indoctrination.
Parents have the responsibility to teach their children. The farther removed parents become from ultimate decision making regarding their children's education the more we become slaves of the state.
2007-01-03 14:36:31 · answer #6 · answered by halfway 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Close the schools? Foster illiteracy? Or leave all standards to the states? Abandon any effort at coordination and comparability across state lines?
Why not just deal with your specific complaints about the Department, whatever they are?
2007-01-03 13:31:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am a conservative and I don't see how this would benefit anything. I agree that there are way to many public assistance programs out there... but education is the key to our future... There may be a lot of pork in there, but we need them.
2007-01-03 13:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
We're spending more money on education than we've ever spent in the history of this country, and we're getting less in terms of a result, why is that?
2007-01-03 13:43:03 · answer #9 · answered by MorgantonNC 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, they should get rid of the right-wing, fake conservative, corporate welfare neocon gang that proposes such anti-American acts. . . and give that money back to the taxpayers!
2007-01-03 13:38:59 · answer #10 · answered by worldinspector 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋