The Left’s Assault on (Teacher) Standards

With the ever-increasing role the federal government is playing, the state of primary and secondary education in these United States has over the last thirty-plus years decayed – tragically, tremendously and inexorably.

President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 gift to the teachers’ union Educrats – the Department of Education – changed fundamentally and increased dramatically the federal role in K-12 education.

Government schools have year by year diminished as education facilities – and risen instead as indoctrination centers.

Where graduates can’t read the diplomas they’re handed – but they can roll a condom on a banana.

The taxpayer money spent on schools and union pet projects has increased again and again, year after year.

We’ve by now since the Department’s inception more than doubled per student spending – from $5,718 (1980-81) to $10,441 (2007-08) (yes, that’s inflation-adjusted).

The mythical import of lowering student-teacher ratios (it makes little to no difference in learning) imposed upon us a rash of new union hires – that did nothing to improve education, but did a great deal to inflate the union dues-paying rolls.

Yet another myth – Head Start – also does nothing to improve scores, but does a great deal to improve the unions’ bank accounts.

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