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====== EDUCATION AT THE CROSSROADS ======


Keeping in mind that the US Constitution only delineates what powers the Federal Government is permitted, it is clear the states have authority over education.


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|Today, public education in the United States is at a crossroads, and the yellow lights are flashing. \\ \\ |//Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.//\\ Thomas Sowell|\\ \\ \\ Education is currently at the forefront of the national debate, and for good reasons. The data suggests our public schools have failed us. The more taxpayers spend on public education, the lower the academic performance of public school students. \\ \\ |//The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.//\\ Albert Einstein|\\ \\ \\ The Federal Department of Education was established under the Department of Education Organization Act of 1979. This was the consolidation and centralization of public education at the national level. Since then, public education costs in the US have soared, while academic results have plummeted. \\ \\ |//Education is a weapon whose effects depend upon who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.//\\ Joseph Stalin|\\ \\ \\ This should alarm us all, given historical precedent. For example: According to a February 2025 report by Fox 45 News Baltimore, entitled “High spending, low results:  Why do Baltimore City Schools perform among the Nation’s worst” lack of money is not the problem, it's a political problem. In terms of education, the federal government has failed the nation. We're throwing good money after bad at our failing public education system.                    \\ \\ |//Governments never learn. Only people learn.\\ //Milton Friedman|\\ \\ \\ Historian Richard Grunberger, who witnessed firsthand the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, describes something eerily similar to the current state of public education in the U.S. He wrote:\\ \\ //The schools were heavily targeted in the strategy to de-Christianize the young. Mandatory prayer in schools was stopped in 1935 and from 1941 onward religious instruction was completely eliminated for all students over 14 years old. The Nazi teachers association, actively discouraged its members from taking religious instruction while at the same time many teachers of religious studies (who were all required to be licensed by the state.) inculcated neo-paganism into their pupils during periods of religious instruction. Later teachers were outright prohibited from attending voluntary religious classes organized by the Catholic Church.//\\ \\ |//He alone who owns the youth, gains the future.\\ //Adolf Hitler|\\ \\ \\ It was not an oversight that the framers left education out of the US Constitution and the bill of rights. Education was never mentioned in our founding documents. The omission of education clearly implies that the states have authority over education. The states should not be beholden to educational concepts, policies, and political philosophies of the federal government. The 10th Amendment clarifies that education should be regulated at the state level:\\ \\ **//The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.//**\\ \\ |//The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of Government in the next.//\\ Abraham Lincoln|\\ \\ \\ Citizens have greater influence to positively reflect the will of the people when education is run at the state level. Our founding fathers understood this.\\ \\ |//Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.//\\ John Adams|\\ \\ \\ Education is rarely mentioned in the Federalist Papers, but religion is extensively indexed. The decline in education in the United States seems to coincide with the removal of religion from our schools. Be assured, this was not by accident.  \\ \\ |//The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.//\\ Karl Marx|\\ \\ \\ Therefore, one must surmise that public education policy established at the federal level and the resulting mandates passed down to the states are unconstitutional.\\ \\ |//If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.\\ //William Jennings Bryant|\\ \\ \\ The American people have been alerted to these dangers. As a result, school choice has entered into the political debate. Whether it be homeschooling, private, parochial, or charter schools, parents are removing their children from public schools at ever-increasing numbers.\\ \\ The teachers' unions and established power brokers of our public education system will oppose school choice and the “dollar follows the child” initiatives at all costs. They don’t seem to want healthy competition in education. After all, there is a lot of power and money at stake.\\ \\ |//Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.\\ //Isaac Asimov|\\ \\ \\ Despotic regimes view education as a political weapon. Consolidating and centralizing education is how those with malignant intent hope to seize control of the populace. Case in point: [[https://americanmind.org/salvo/campus-radicalism/|the rise of radicalized students on college campuses across the nation]].\\ \\ The contrasts between those who advocate for a free people versus those who believe in absolute autocratic control of the population through indoctrination are bright and sharp.\\ \\ |//I cannot live without books.\\ //Thomas Jefferson|//To read too many books is h//armful.\\ Mao Zedong|\\ \\ ||
|\\ \\ What happens next in education is solely up to “We the People”. **The will of the people** must be greater than the will of those who hope to establish dictatorial control over a sovereign people through propaganda and indoctrination. \\ \\ Those who wish to establish this control realized long ago that seizing total control of education was essential to their evil designs. Since 1979, education has been consolidated and centralized at the highest levels of government by those who believe a solid education //excludes// a sound moral foundation and a significant consumption of enlightened literature.\\ \\ The COVID-19 pandemic gave us a rare and providential opportunity to witness the failings and destructive practices inside our nation’s federally run public education system. It is well past time to hold our elected officials responsible for “your children’s” education. They are “your children”, not the school system’s, not the Government’s.\\ \\ What can you do?\\ \\ 1.     Attend your local school board public meetings.  \\ \\ 2.     Learn about your local school board candidates and vote accordingly.\\ \\ 3.     Find a school board candidate who reflects your values and work on that campaign.\\ \\ 4.     Run for school board.\\ \\ 5.     If you feel public education is failing your child, carefully consider other means of educating your child.\\ \\ **We are at the crossroads.**\\ **The yellow lights are flashing. **\\ **Don’t yield.**\\ **Help us bring education closer to the people, by the people, and for “We the People”. **|


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|Created:                 |2025-05-29 16:08 GMT                          |
|Updated:                 |2025-06-16 07:00 GMT                          |
|Published:               |2025-06-09 23:08 GMT                          |
|Converted:               |2025-11-11 12:05 GMT                          |
|Change Author:           |Steve Shapero                                 |
|Credit Author:           |Dave Hafer, District Captain Southern Maryland|