| SamuelRSmith said: @Kasz216: It's still up for debate though, isn't it? (Well that's how I interpeted it), and that seems... worrying. @steven787: Skinner: "I'm telling you people, the Earth revolves around the Sun!" Abe: "Burn him!" |
Not really.
I mean... you've got some super religious people who don't believe evolution... but that's about it. The thing is... like minded people flock together and we have a multi-state system, so every once in a while a state does something crazy. So the occasional state will do something like this, but even then, there are general laws in place that stop it.
Education isn't handled by the central government. The Department of Education is just basically a waste of government that makes things harder on the individual states by trying to help. Except all they can do to "help" is to withold funds.
Each state handles it's own education system pretty much to limit things like propaganda and because it's hard to set curriculums for a country this huge from one office in DC.
Some states have really good educations, some have really poor.
Then some are like Ohio. Which has both because they've been using an illegal funding system for like 20+ years yet for some reason nobody has been forced to change it yet. (Each district pays for it's own school districts budget. Problem obviously being that means rich disctricts can afford a higher percentage tax and therefore get more funding.)
