School's In Session

In reply to a local unhappy public school teacher who voted for Obama but is now upset that he is merely continuing the Bush education policies and spending I say,
Public education in this country is a shameful mess. But the problem is not improperly allocated federal resources; but rather the federal government meddling in education in the first place. Education is uniquely a state and local endeavor. The U.S. Constitution grants no positive authority or power to the federal government in the area of education. Thus, under the 10 Amendment (The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.), the feds should not be involved in education in any way, especially financially. Get rid of the Dept. of Education and all federal money and meddling in education and let those resources stay in the states and local communities to begin with. Then work with local school boards to fix the problems.

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Separation of School & State --Selwyn Duke

Yesterday I heard Selwyn Duke talking about the homeschool issue in California. A state appellate court has ruled that homeschooling parents must have a state teaching certificate or put their kids back in public (government) schools. This is nothing more than a bold attempt to get kids back into these socialist indoctrination chambers while denying them an education. Their primary purpose is to turn out liberal voters for the Democrat Party. Kids who graduate (if they do) are barely literate, have no idea what truth is and cannot think for themselves. They are malleable pawns in the calculated slide to socialism, used to vote in the liberal pied pipers while being distracted with bread and circuses. The education of our children is the perogative of parents not politicians. It is indeed time to demand a Separation of School and State!