150 DOE - editorialpinups

As a print and radio journalist I have had the opportunity to cover a few school boards in my time.  One specific memory was a situation where a district was covering an assistance position with a part time employee successfully.  The Federal department of education dangled a fifty percent match for the same position but it had to be full time. Doing this would cost the district more money than they had been paying and the district then had to find more students who would need this service while at the time the number of students needing the service did not go up.  Eventually the district got into a recruiting situation for this service loosening the requirements to include students who some had found did not benefit from the service or the interruption from their regular classes.

This is one example how the education rankings were set to fall.  To offer services to those who do not need them will cause numbers to be skewed to make some look worse off than they were.  Or best yet, not educate them by spending the educational time in something that does not help educate the student.

Another example of this were the preponderance of DEI programs.  In my education were were taught to treat everyone equally and be friendly to all.  To do the right thing.  But reports of DEI curriculum were teaching to dislike and even hate.  How does this help elevate the numbers?

Then there was the big college push.  Telling people that if you don’t go to college you will never amount to anything.  Not only is college preparatory cheaper education, it does not leave many kids with skills for living. It also helped cause a shortage of trades people.

It has been said that education is best handled at the local level.  It is also best destroyed at the local level, but the Federal DOE has done nothing to help so many school districts in trouble. It has been reported that nobody in the Baltimore school district performed at average or above in the core courses. Exactly how has the Federal DOE handled this situation.

Linda McMahon has been brought in to right this situation including abolishing the department.  While it is said this would take an act of congress, McMahon can go through and get rid of financial waste and abuse.  She can also change and eliminate rules that are detrimental to education.  She can present to congress a budget need that is nothing!

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), advocates only for public education.  This attitude leaves on the table other possible sources of education for students for who the public schools are not working.  The AFT has been overly influential in setting the agenda for the Federal DOE. This could help explain the lowering of the rank for the Unites States.

In business when something does not work, it is eliminated.  Layoffs occur.  People move on to other things.

If businesses can do this, why not the Federal Government?  Why do we keep open government agencies that are beyond charter, in effective to their charter, or were not needed in the first place.  Why do we have such a bloated government doing things beyond the original charters?

McMahon has already announced the laying off of fifty percent of DOE employees.  Seems like a start!