Let's Start With the Dept. of Education.

Every school in America has a Principal.  

It's his/her/its job to ride herd on the goings on inside those institutes of higher learning.  Educating our young, so they can live full, productive lives.  

Lives to be lived within the bounds of that which is considered reasonable, moral, ethical and legal (although the ACLU might disagree!).  

And to accomplish that Herculean goal, we dedicate more than 55% of our property taxes nationwide, toward education.  Building and maintaining schools, hiring and training and overseeing teachers and staff, and insuring the safety of the youth we are educating.

There are 98,817 schools in America.  And our property taxes support them.  Additionally we have 6,000 colleges and universities, with 4,724 of them degree-granting post-secondary institutions.  And our property taxes help support them. 

And back to our Principal.  His school is in a District.  That School District will comprise many primary and secondary and high schools.  The one with which I'm most familiar is the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.  It's located in Orange County, CA, where I dithered for more than 40 years.  And 14 of those years were spent as an unpaid volunteer Advisor to its Board of Directors.  It has 32 schools at present, and it runs them quite well.  In fact, one of my wonderfully bright daughters teaches there, to its credit.

Then we have the County Boards of Education, which oversee the various school district boards.  A couple of dozen school boards are overseen by each county.  Looking over their shoulders.  Doing everything in their power to look important.  To seem relevant.  Coming up with new rules and regulations for their underlings to follow.    

Newport-Mesa Unified did a good job.  I have no reason to suspect our other school districts don't do a good job as well.  Except for the Lost Angeles Unified School District, which is our Great Country's 2nd largest.  It has more than 1,000 schools under its management, and a whopping 500,000 students!  Oh yeah, it routinely graduates less than 45% of them.  

Less than 45%!

But the others likely don't need any more outside supervision.  But they get it.  From their respective State Boards of Education.  Every state has one.  And they'll average 2,000 or 3,000 nice folks, each earning more than $200,000, and who have a nice office near the Capitol Building.  They are the folks who produce Edicts From On High to be sent to the County School Boards.  Who will then send them off to the local School Districts.  Like the mandatory implementation of "DEI."  Which rots the brains of our young people.  

None of them are needed.

And guess what?  On top of that we have the United States Department of Education.  There's 4,407 people employed in Washington, D. C.  On The Potomac, with an annual budget of $68,000,000,000 (that's with a "B"), who get paid very well for doing almost nothing.  Except cause the State Departments of Education trouble, which they then pass along in the form of Even More Trouble to their County Boards, and then their District Boards.

Because sh*t, as we all know, flows downhill.  

Think of it as everything past your local County School District as a complete waste of time, effort, energy and money.  And if you live on Long Island, as an example, your average annual property taxes will exceed $15,000!  Often more than your mortgage payment!  Wouldn't you like to have half of that back?

All of this excess is where 55% of your property taxes go.  

The Bottom Line:  We didn't need the Dept. of Education then.  We don't need the Dept. of Education now.  That's why I'm now shining The Chuckmeister's  electronic "Beam of Shame" on it.  It needs to go.  

As Elon Musk has stated, he intends to trim $Two Trillion Dollars off our $6.7 Trillion Dollar budget.  He should start with the Dept. of Education.

Write him on "X" and let him know how you feel...