GRAPH: What did we get for our trillions in Federal education spending?

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[Scoforever]

End the department of education.

[187cisoULcRUNcHER]

I wish everyone could see this.THX for all your hard work Shelly.

[galegregory97comcast]

IT WAS THERE PAY ONLY  LOL

[herbs814]

duplicate government offices just give politicians more ability to buy favors with cushy bureaucratic jobs. big government serves the interest of big government. big education serves the teachers' unions. none of this bureaucratic spending helps the children's education, certainly not more than leaving that money in the hands of parents would.

[CASTILLOM1]

That smile at the end!!!! Gotta love it.

[immayhem]

Suggested Reading: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto.

[Rys2sense]

exactly

[shooter348]

Why do we have a federal department of education when every state already has their own state department of education? Why pay for duplicate government offices?

[whoo689]

Remember Cash for Clunkers? The idiot Transportation Secretary actually said it was "a success." By what standard?? Just that it was popular and the money was given out quickly? Nevermind the fact that less than 1% of the total cars on the road would even be replaced thanks to this program.

[whoo689]

So the first college class after those requirements were passed didn't have much reason to even TAKE all the extra school requirements. So it was a waste. But did gov't DECENTRALIZE and let local school districts decide their OWN curriculums? Not exactly. They just kept pushing more and more regulations.

It's sad, really. Too many people are afraid of the truth. Bureaucrats will scapegoat anyone as long as they deflect attention from their own mistakes.

[whoo689]

What's even more ironic is that the first gov't interventions in education in the 1940s and 50s were designed merely to increase access for poorer students, NOT overhaul the actual teaching itself. Then the feds started thinking "In order to produce students that can win the space race, we have to require them to take all this crap that won't affect them later in life, so they can be experts at science and math and work for the gov't." Of course, 20 years later, we pretty much won the race.

[whoo689]

So it fits the gov't disaster model perfectly. Government officials created a problem out of thin air, got enough media attention and 'evidence' to claim it ACTUALLY exists, fooled the people into believing it, and passed laws to create new agencies, regulations and spending TO FIGHT A PROBLEM THAT WASN'T THERE!! How much worse could students in the 1950s have been in school compared to those in the public systme today? I mean, really.