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This meme assumes that government didn’t already control education before Carter. False.
Horace Mann was the first person responsible for pushing government control of education.
Control of children and their education is control of the future. Humanists have always understood this. Horace Mann, James G. Carter (not Jimmy Carter), and their many associates (including Senator Charles G. Sumner) were all Unitarians; they hated the Puritan faith of their forefathers with a passion. Their purpose in promoting state control of education was twofold. First, they rightfully understood that the only way to destroy Biblical faith was to control the schools and, little by little, remove Christianity and introduce Humanism. Second, they were Centralists or statist, men who believed that salvation comes by work of statist legislation or law.
“The state is the father of children” ~ Horace Mann
True indeed, and plenty of state governments had already destroyed education…..but this allowed Federal bureaucrats to now destroy education for EVERYONE, on top of the destruction at the state level. I once talked to a School District Superintendent in California back in the early 90s. He told me, with much disgust, that nearly his entire staff was there just to deal with the mountains of new regulations that were coming from the federal bureaucracy (not the Congress) every week. He said that what made it worse was that the educational stooges (my words not his) at the state level, didn’t want to feel left out, so they were adding their own new rules and regulations on top of the federal ones all the time too. He said that he used to get about 18 new regulations or so a year before the feds took over and now he was dealing with well over 2000 at least. And that was in the 90s.
Bush created the Dept. of Homeland Security. Do you feel more free and secure now?
And in 1994, along with the “Republican Revolution,” the GOP promised to get rid of the Dept. of Education and return control back to the states where it belongs (at least Constitutionally – personally I support a complete abolition of ALL government-run/controlled/regulated/bastardized “education). They failed to do that like so many other promises they failed to keep. Then under Bush, when they had control of both houses and the White House (remember how important it was to give them that so they could usher in “Nirvana”) they not only didn’t get rid of the DOE, but they implemented NCLB, which was a monstrous unfunded mandate upon the states, has encouraged massive test-cheating scandals, and has only further destroyed the “education” system in government schools around the nation. Seriously, why does anyone vote for either of the two worthless major parties anymore?
GOP wins big, as in 1994, when it runs on a fiscal conservative platform. Too bad the GOP never conserved a single thing in it’s entire rotten existence.
What if what you are trying to “conserve” is rotten to the core in the first place?? They seem to do a great job at “conserving” crony capitalist handouts, crony capitalist foreign aid, tyrannical wars on drugs and personal freedom, medical cartel tyranny, bigPharma tyranny, insurance cartel tyranny, tax tyranny, socialist government monopoly education, and so much more.
I’d say both parties have perfected that racket.
I voted for Mr Peanut in 1976. I made such a horrific mistake that I didn’t have the nerve to vote in a presidential election again until I voted in 2016. The choice in 2016 was so obvious that I didn’t see how I could make another similar mistake. If you are wondering, I did not vote for the candidate suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and traumatic brain injury resulting from one of the falls that plague Parkinson’s Disease sufferers.