Do you really want this?

Question

I dont undersatnd liberals and conservatives. BOTH want the federal government running our schools yet... both HATE the other side.

I personally don't want Bill Clinton near s*x ed.. I am sure liberals have plenty of things they dont want GW teaching either.

Leave curriculum to local school boards to decide and leave the money there as well.

Get GW and BC out of small town USA and let parents and teachers LOCALLY decide what their kids should be taught.

Does anyone get my point? I asked this before and nope.. they didnt get it then either.

Big Business + Big Government = Big Brother

Answer 1

I agree that the less the federal government has their hand in, the better.  When is the last time they did something right?  Still though, you cannot  let parents and teachers locally decide what their kids should be taught.  Suppose, you have a fundamentalist Christian town, and they feel science is wrong.  Instead of teaching science, they decide that the bible should be taught instead.  Now you have a school that is churning out children, who are sadly lacking in  knowledge needed to continue onto a college education, when compaired to other children of their level.  Is this fair to those children?  Their need to be standards and guidelines set by the state or federal government, to make sure our children are getting a better or at least equivalent education to children elsewhere in the world.  The only time that they should step in afterwards. is if the standards are not being met and then only to fix the problem.  Do you understand what I am saying?  I am as against big brother as you can get, but even I see the need for the government to step in and take control sometimes, for the good of our country and future.

Answer 2

I'm OK with No Child Left Behind.  I don't want USGov running the schools, but I think it's OK for it to monitor and let the local schools know when their students are falling behind compared to other schools.  Popular Science reports that China is educating an army of scientists and engineers, and India is taking over software development, so the US really is falling behind.

Answer 3

Conservatives don't want the federal gummint running our schools.

No Child Left Behind was Rove and Dubya's "New Tone" strategery when they first got to DC.  It's a lot of things, but it isn't conservative.

But generally, I agree completely.  The Constitution neither delegates nor authorizes the kind of action that the federal gummint has taken with regard to education.  Or welfare.  Or a hundred other things.

We're still paying for FDR's huge expansion of the welfare state.  Aided and abetted by Johnson and Nixon.

Answer 4

It isn't so much that the federal government wants to control schools as it wants control of school funding.  The latest fiasco, dubbed "No Child Left Behind" is at best, a way of shifting the blame for underfunding education to the schools and school districts themselves.  The U.S. Department of Education calls this accountability, as in making schools and states accountable for the money that is spent on education.  The truth is that the Federal Government makes up only about 4% of the entire education budget.  Rather than admit that there are other things the Federal Government wants to spend money on, it calls for schools to be held accountable for funds that never seem to fully arrive at the local school level anyway.

Answer 5

I hate to say it but I think the government is the only entity that is capable of providing quality education for all students. We just need to close all of the private schools. We need the money placed in one school system. (the money sent to private schools currently). Education benefits all of us. It would enable the U.S. to better compete globally.

Answer 6

Ah, Grasshopper: Republicans and Democrats are like two spoiled children in a car. It takes both of them to drive it: one to steer and one to push the peddles. Every couple of years they fight over who is going to do what for the next couple of years. The trouble for us passengers is we're on a road with no turns or exits. They took the last on ramp on to the highway to h**l and we can't get off or out! Issue, issue name the issue: it just doesn't matter! Your 'point' is MOOT!

Now, if you'd be willing to kiss state and federal funding good-by.....

Answer 7

Government money for schools means government control of curriculum. That in a nutshell is the problem. I agree local communities need to control curriculum. Unionized teachers want to control curriculum as well. That is just as bad as government control. What we need is parent/school board control.

Answer 8

I think the federal or state government should have some level of oversight on education.  They should at least be able to set criteria that is to be taught.  When you leave it completely up to the local schools, you will find poorer schools that are much farther behind other ones.  These schools will fail its students in preparing them for a real education.

In NY state, where I went to school, the state selected criteria for every class and you were required to take these classes in a certain order.  After each school year, you take a state-designed Regents exam in each subject.  If you pass, you move on, but if you fail, you repeat that class.  This is a good system to ensure that every graduating high school across the state has been exposed to the same minimal amount of teaching deemed necessary by the state.  I believe it's a good system.  Funding would be allocated based on the amount of money the school takes in weighed against the school student's performance in the Regents (among other factors).  This made it easier to identify which schools needed help where to get everyone on the same level.  Even better, if a majority of students failed a Regents, the teacher would be considered for firing because they failed their own students.

Answer 9

I am glad I have no illgetimate rugrats so this doesn't affect me Thank some1.

Answer 10

I've said it before and I'll say it again, take away the government's money and ability to raise taxes and guess what all their power goes away.

The power to tax is the power to destroy!