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Originally Posted by kane
But you didn't answer the questions. Without any type of educational oversight from the government there will only be those levels set by existing (and new) private schools. Public schools will all but cease to exist and the quality of education in this country could dramatically sink.
Sure the founding fathers didn't write all this into th constitution, but then the founding fathers weren't overseeing a country that was a world super power and in charge of one of the top 2 biggest economies in the world. Without education this country will fail miserably. Without some sort of rules and oversight the quality of the educational system could sink very fast. We would would have liberty, yes and we will know the pledge of allegiance, but sadly we will have to memorize it because we won't be able to read it.
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the dept of education has been around since 1980, the US coped fine before then and I'm sure it will if it was abolished
this is NOT a new position for a Republican like Ron Paul:
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A previous Department of Education was created in 1867 but soon was demoted to an Office in 1868. Its creation a century later in 1979 was controversial and opposed by many in the Republican Party, who saw the department as an unconstitutional, unnecessary federal bureaucratic intrusion into local affairs.
Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in the United States is highly decentralized, and the federal government and Department of Education are not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards (with the recent exception of the No Child Left Behind Act). This has been left to state and local school districts. The quality of educational institutions and their degrees is maintained through an informal private process known as accreditation, over which the Department of Education has no direct public jurisdictional control.
Rather, the primary function of the Department of Education is to formulate federal funding programs involving education and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights.
On March 23, 2007, President Bush signed into law H.R. 584, which designates the ED Headquarters building as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building.[2]
President Ronald Reagan promised during the 1980 presidential election to eliminate the Department of Education as a cabinet post,[1] but he was not able to do so with a Democratic House of Representatives. In the 1982 State of the Union Address, he pledged, "The budget plan I submit to you on Feb. 8 will realize major savings by dismantling the Department of Education."[2] Throughout the 1980s, the abolition of the Department of Education was a part of the Republican Party platform, but the administration of President George H.W. Bush declined to implement this idea.
In 1996, the Republican Party made abolition of the Department a cornerstone of their campaign promises, calling it an inappropriate federal intrusion into local, state, and family affairs.[2] The GOP platform read: "The Federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in school curricula or to control jobs in the market place. This is why we will abolish the Department of Education, end federal meddling in our schools, and promote family choice at all levels of learning."[2][3] During his 1996 presidential run, Senator Bob Dole promised, "We're going to cut out the Department of Education."[3] A 1997 survey conducted by Congressman Ron Paul found that 54% of his constituency wished to abolish the federal Department of Education.[4]
In 2000, the Republican Liberty Caucus passed a resolution to abolish the Department of Education.[5]
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