Close the DOE

Common Core is just the latest and most blatant annual offering by the U.S Department of Education since it began dumbing down the curriculum since 1977. 

This evil plan began much earlier in the 1920s with the infiltration of Communists into the Ivy League colleges and spread like a grassfire throughout all private and public U.S. universities, the media and government. 

Each major political “reform” and cultural descent has had its effect on our on-going educational deterioration.  The proliferation of “junk courses and majors” was astonishing.

The last Plague was “race to the top” and it spawned the test cheating scandal in a rush for bonus money.  Before that was “no child left behind”.  Our curriculum gets weaker and our outcomes become poorer with each treatment of federal sabotage.

The introduction of “values” and social engineering set the schools off on a wild ride to abandon the development of skills in reading writing and math. Attaining these skills is the only reason we have schools in the first place. The original goal was to give students the knowledge and skill to find answers to their own questions.

Homeschooling has re-proven the fact that all learning is self-learning and enables students to spend some time on what interests them.

Public education has turned into political indoctrination with deference to the latest “victim group” or junk science theory.

To disguise the dysfunction, schools have been on a building binge for 30 years, competing for the fanciest facilities. That is as stupid and shallow as voting for a candidate because they look good, rather than knowing how they would vote and how that would affect your economy and your liberty.

Parents and students can take control and expose students to potential interests that can result in a self-supporting future, if the student knows what he or she wants to learn, then make sure whoever they hire can teach them. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader