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The once-vaunted American public education system has turned into a raging dumpster fire, churning out legions of semi-literate emotional cripples whose confidence in their beliefs is inversely proportional to their level of factual knowledge and capacity for logic and reason.
Today’s youth, and many adults, are stunningly ignorant regarding even very basic concepts and facts related to math, science, and history. They have spent years marinating in government indoctrination, being taught what to think, rather than how to think.
Unsurprisingly, this steep decline in basic literacy and intelligence can be traced back to the creation of the federal Department of Education under Democrat President Jimmy Carter.
An astute reader might recognize that America managed to go almost two centuries without federal involvement in education due to the fact that education is not one of the legitimate functions of the federal government to be found in the enumerated powers of the U.S. Constitution.
This is not for a lack of “investment,” as politicians like to call their profligate spending of taxpayer money. When the federal Department of Education was formed in 1979, it had a budget of $2.9 billion. In the Barack Obama years, that skyrocketed to nearly $80 billion.
So in what category do American students score #1 in the world? That would be in “self-esteem.” In other words, they are mediocre academically, but they are very confident in their mediocrity.
And so it is no wonder the Left loathes President Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, a long-time advocate for school choice. DeVos has spent the last two years seeking to unravel Obama’s disastrous education policies.
America’s schools are the battleground on which the fate of America’s experiment in self-government will be decided.
