On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:00:09 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:29:55 -0400, bpuharic wrote:


in fact, until early in the 20th century it wasnt a govt function at
all. there were no govt schools anywhere at the local or the federal
level

Didn't you just repeat what I said?

As for the original question, if it wasn't "delegated" to the federal
government in the constitution, the 10th amendment says it reverts to
the states.

and nowhere does it prohibit the feds from funding education. local
boards have power. the feds have the money.

and nowhere is this prohibited. nowhere is a dept of education
prohibited

so far you keep telling me it is.

go ahead. show me where

In a practical sense, we have had a federal education department for
30 years and education has really not improved

that's because america has the worst form of education policy in the
western world.

we allow local boards to run education. that's a disaster. no other
country does this. most have national standards and education is run
on a national level

we in america have a myth that local govt is better

anyone who knows about the mississippi sovereignty commission knows
that's wrong

.. It just got a whole
lot more expensive. We spend well over a trillion (with a T) in K-12
and we still have more that 25% of the kids who never make it out of
the 12th grade. Our little jerk water county in Floriduh spends $1.42
Billion for 80,044 K-12 students ($17.7k per kid)
http://www.leeschools.net/info/facts.htm
It is virtually all of what we pay on property taxes, far exceeding
what we pay for police, fire, roads and other local expenditures
combined.
For all of that money we get a 72.5% graduation rate.

we also have a more diverse student body than virtually any other
country in the world.

you're just too stupid to know what's going on