You are probably saying "why are you eliminating the department of
education?" Well if you will give me a few moments I will tell you why it
is one of the least needed Federal departments existing in our government.
Reason 1: The department of education was created by the
Carter administration in an effort to increase test scores and overall student
performance. Unfortunately, the student performance in the
United States has actually
stagnated since the department’s creation. So it had many wondering why this
was the case. Well, the department of education is allowed to give out
additional monies toward schools who meet certain standards. Let it be known
that the department does not actually play a role in educating America's
children, they just serve as a money tree for additional revenue to schools who
desire extra cash for programs they may like and for the communities that
surround them. How this works is by mandating schools follow certain rules to
qualify for that money. The schools believe that they need the money in order
to carry out their mission to educate children (though some may question where
and how that additional money is spent). However, many a time the money is not
even adequate to fund the program leaving the school needing more, but the money
is not the issue at hand, it is the requirements that are put in place to get
the money. The department of education mandates that the school implement
programs or certain teaching methods in order to get that money. However, if
the school deviates from that method the money is cut off. So schools have no
incentive to give up the failing methods that are being forced on them. What
makes matters worse is that some of those methods are actually incapable of
educating children. It is not the teacher but the methods mandated that cause
our children to falter in the education environment. This is basically forcing
a cookie cutter education system on
America's kids when they really
need an education system that can be customized to each child as the need arises.
Now we have "Common Core" being pushed by the department of education
which advocates more cookie cutter approaches to education that makes education
dull and sub par for
America's
kids. This cookie cutter policy is the main reason that students for years now
have slowly been deprived of adequate education as standards are pushed further
downwards to inflate the value of lower and lower test scores.
Reason 2: What also harms our student population is the
student loan program run by the department of education. There are a number of
race and other requirements that make it overly complex to get a student loan
in the first place, rather than base the loan on the students’ ability to pay
it back. But the problem is not necessarily the access to the loans, but rather
the relationship between the amount colleges charge for tuition and the growth
rate of the student loans themselves. The colleges know they can make the costs
of colleges larger and larger, as the department of education will just give
out bigger and bigger loans. The result is that students suffer massive debt
while the colleges’ pockets get lined with cash. Also, the banks used by the
government to distribute the loans get the money back if the student should
default, but the student will still be left to carry the debt burden regardless
which ruins their credit rating making it much more financially difficult to
buy a house let alone a tiny apartment.
What the department of education also does is advocate exclusively for
college for an individual. But that is not the only education option for a
successful career. There are certificate courses, online schools and even
vocational schools that are just as good, if not better at educating students
in one particular subject or training the student to be a professional in a
particular job. By advocating the college system as the only option to success,
they disadvantage students by hiding their options.
Conclusion: America
needs an education system that is customizable to each individual student. This
allows children to advance at their own pace using the best method suited for
their education needs. Also, colleges know that people continuously advocate
their pipe dream of success and thus we ignore our other options. The
department of education stands in the way of changing the system and allowing
the schools to be governed at the local level where they can much more easily
make the changes necessary toward the custom education model that will give
students the advantages they really need in the education environment. So let’s
do away with the department of education while we still can before
America's
children become doomed to mediocrity.
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