Article link: http://www.smallgovtimes.com/story/07nov07.birth.control.vouchers/

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#1 - From Tony on 2007-11-08
While I, too, agree that it is horrible that public schools are falling into the pit of despair with sex education and birth control.

I don't see the connection that justifies allowing the leviathon that is the Department of Education to go unscathed by your article.

Parents are not involved in their children's lives anymore because it is not their responsibility anymore. It is the government's job now...Federal, State, County, and City. No longer do parents involve themselves in the education of their children. They somehow think that threatening teachers and administrators with litigation to protect "innocent" Suzie or Billy is "good parenting". (crazy)

Why give the Department of Education billions of dollars only to expect one-thousandth of one-percentage in return for a measely voucher that will be more worthless than the paper it will be written on.

What do school administrators do when their doors are bombarded with concerned parents with vouchers in hand and the school is already at the max occupancy per the Fire Marshall? Turn them away...for shame. Damned Administrators anyway...right?

The only way to force parents back into their child's education is to force responsibility and culpability back onto them. ELIMINATE the Department of Education. Make parents get involved again. Guess what? It worked prior to 1980, just ask your Grandparents.

We have continuously attempted to centralize our education system since 1980. Heck, No Child Left Behind was Bob Beamon-esque leap in the direction of centralizing our education system.

We need to fulfill the Reagan promise of eliminating the DoE from the cabinet level...that would be a good start.

Food for thought. In 2006 the mandatory budget for the Department of Education was $13,600,000,000.00 (that is billions) and the DISCRETIONARY budget was $56,000,000,000.00. Discretionary is another word for slush fund. Do you think that money is helping children? Teachers? I would submit that only Unions, Lobbyists, Politicians, and multi-level bureaucracy are the only ones being helped by that budget.

Just look at Washington, D.C. public schools....it isn't a lack of money that is the problem. It is a lack of responsibility and accountability for the money that is the problem.

Respectfully,
Tony

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