‘We were better off without it’
By Bob Unruh
A priority for the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is to tackle the Deep State, the bureaucracy in Washington that is a self-perpetuating industry, to find what American taxpayers don’t need or want.
And get rid of it.
One of the targets he’s already identified is the Department of Education, which for the last 50 years or so has been expanding until it’s now spending some $240 billion a year of taxpayer money.
And Trump’s plan is getting a thumbs-up from an influential conservative leader, Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse.
“President-elect Donald J. Trump has said the Department of Education should be shut down – and I agree,” Graham posted on social media. “Even President Ronald Reagan championed abolishing it and leaving decisions at the state and local level.
“The Department of Education has only existed since 1979, and we were better off without it. We have been spending billions of dollars for what? To dumb our children down? To teach them to disrespect the flag and our nation? To introduce them to sexual content at earlier ages including gay and transgender agendas? For them to be taught the lies of Critical Race Theory and DEI? To accomplish the woke agendas of teachers’ unions? To have reading scores at near historic lows? To have students score lower in math than they did 20 years ago? To have 1/3 of U.S. school children score below their actual grade level? For the U.S. to rank a low 28th out of 37 countries of the world in math?
“I think we can do better. Put the parents back in the driver’s seat and let schools come under state and local leadership,” he explained.
The BBC noted that ridding the nation of the agency is one of the promises Trump has made.