Quote from: MoonShadow on July 30, 2011, 04:00:14 AM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on July 29, 2011, 06:08:17 PM

Quote from: TheGer on July 29, 2011, 02:43:02 PM

There is Zero reason the Federal Government should be involved in running Schools or Education. Especially due to how much they've F'cked the whole thing up. The education level has taken a nose dive in the US since Federal takeover. States are more than capable of handling it, just as they did in the past.

baloney.

the US became the most powerful nation on earth because - right after our revolution - federally mandated universal education made us the best educated nation on earth. that lasted until somewhere around WWII. since then the corporatocracy has been incrementally whittling away at our educational infrastructure. and it shows.

take, for example, your grasp of history...

The US wasn't the most powerful nation on Earth until after WWII. The federal government had zero roll in education until the founding of the Department of Education in the 1970's. Compulsory education of children didn't exist in the US anywhere until New York State started requiring the education of children in the 1870's, and compulsory education wasn't an nationwide requirement until 1913. Even then, it was only compulsory until 8th grade until after WWII.

This is too beautiful.