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Mr Puggsly said:
Puppyroach said:

I've never understood this, but why is the DOE always the target for destruction, when their job is to provide public education for the masses? Please explain.

I think John Stossel sums it up well.

"The department doesn’t teach kids or pay teachers. It comes up with studies, test requirements, and one-size-fits-all rules that limit what schools can do if they want federal money. That money gets taken from states and shipped to Washington, D.C., which then ships it back to states if they do something the department likes. On that long journey, plenty of the money disappears into the hands of bureaucrats.

Turn education back over to local governments, the way it was not so long ago. Let entrepreneurs and local governments compete to improve schools."

And then what'll happen is a whole bunch of poorer people will be crammed into under-staffed and under-funded schools while the rich kids will gets top of the line education.