Well, there’s repealing Obamacare, for one.
Passed the Student Success Act. It brings local control back to the states. The federal government should stay out of education.
Don’t you wonder why the GOP hates education?
No. The federal government absolutely should set standards for education. Otherwise you’ll wind up with people in Kansas or someplace believing that a god created the Earth, and that evolution doesn’t happen, while other kids are learning about science, broadening their horizons, and being prepared to live in the world.
Exactly.
They secured careers for Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver.
This is why some Christians don’t trust progressives. No progressive should enter any Christian church with that rhetoric.
I don’t think the GOP hates education. It’s why does education have to be monitored by the federal government. Education, health, should be to the states, in my opinion. Those aren’t values. Socially, the government probably shouldn’t be involved in the social issues, but it degrades a nation overall.
In case you haven’t noticed, some states want to teach intelligent design/creationism as being as valid as evolution.
Texas controls most of the textbooks used across the nation.
Without minimum standards, some students won’t be ready to move on to college.
Would you like to graduate high school and find out your education is inadequate for the college you wish to attend in another state?
Some Christians are delusional persons who put bronze age myths above actual observed science.
It’s a fact that the world doesn’t have a stone dome above it holding water back. It’s a fact that there was never a global flood. It’s a fact that dinosaurs existed many millions of years ago, before man.
Facts. If some shitty flyover state wants to brainwash its kids in public school into believing nonsense myths crafted by ignorant men thousands of years ago, the federal government has a duty to keep them from doing that.
Shitty parents who want to brainwash their kids have access to homeschooling and/or private schools.
No, but why does government have to be involved? Why?
Because the states can’t be trusted.
Because it’s better to have uniform education for the whole country.
That’s the point I was trying to make.
Personal responsibility. It is incumbent upon the students to research their schools from Kindergarten through high school, and to discover the requirements for admission into the college they will wish to attend in a dozen years, and to convince their parents to relocate to another state if necessary. If they graduate from high school in a state that teaches myths over science, and then are unprepared to attend a university in a state that actually educates students, then it’s their own fault.
And the states are in it because the localities can’t be trusted to do it. And the localities are in it because the families can’t be trusted to do it.
And it’s more efficient to have the economies of scale that national, enforced standards permit.
I think education should be left to the states in certain aspects. You cannot have standards for the nation. Period. You just want a large government.
Some states are better than the federal government. Some are worse. You want uniformity, not better.
Sure, you can. Sometimes you have to, if the local and state governments have demonstrated histories of stupidity and/or corruption.
Otherwise, you’ll eventually end up with refugees from Kansas claiming asylum at Columbia, saying that if they return home they’ll be persecuted because of their intelligence.
Rarely do they ask, “Is our children learning?”
You don’t think it’s important for kids to learn critical thinking? Civics? Differences between the many world governments? How about reading comprehension? Spelling and grammar? Algebra? Where do you draw the line?
Uniformity as in a minimum level. States should be free to do better.
And if some are worse, do you really want that to continue?
Why not?