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Originally Posted by Glazer
Your local school district is relatively affluent. There are schools in South West Atlanta that would not stay open without the DOE footing most of the bill. I can understand opposition to mandatory curriculum. But DOE does a lot of vital functions long before the drive to standardize began. Get rid of the DOE and kiss girl's sports goodbye. Special ed? I hope you're rich.
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Ah, no, my local school district is cutting back to 4-day weeks and cutting out anything that isn't readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic. But this is not the fault of the DOE. This is the fault of the penny-pinching locals and a bunch of me-firsters who, back in 1992, voted to slowly strangle state government.
I can't speak for Mississippi ... I don't even give a shit about Mississippi ... but here in Colorado, the sooner we kick Uncle Sam out of public education, the sooner we can return to being one of the top states in the nation, public education-wise. We've forgotten how to fund our own schools, and we've paid the price for it the way a junkie pays the price for heroin addiction.
If DOE can help us keep teachers in classrooms the way USDA helps keep farmers on farms, great. But that's not what they do. They require one-size-fits-all programs, fund them for five years, and then let the funding lapse. Those are called unfunded mandates, and they're killing our public schools.