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Defund all public education and raise the voting age to 25. Would solve a lot of problems.

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In Arizona, there are over 500 independent charter K-12 schools, many of them in strip malls. Supply-side education works!

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That vid clip in the middle was disturbing, but appropriate.

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While it seems impossible to eliminate the Department of Education, maybe the next best thing is to make it irrelevant by making school choice available everywhere.

I always ask lefties, “Why is there a Department of Education, when by definition all schools are local? There are no federal schools. It would be like having a federal Department of Firehouses”. As usual, the lefties have no logical response to such a simple question.

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Amen, brother

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As usual, you are “dialed in” Jeff! I recall John Taylor Gatto commenting that the literacy rate in New England in the 1840s was well above 90%. There were no public schools. Congregationalists, in particular, created schools. He cited the demand for hoards of compliant, punctual workers to fill jobs with factories and railroads as a singular factor. Public policy emerged to create the sense of urgency to solve a major crisis. Then the politicians heroically saved society from itself by creating public education. Public education then had to be watered down to flatten sectarian identity. The classical roots of European civilization have been inexorably pushed off the cliff and expunged from memory. Who learns Greek and Latin anymore? The note about the Latin School is fantastic. It shows the bifurcation of our society into the governors and the governed. I hope that people will turn their back on government schooling and return to local education.

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