As much as Gary says he would like to eliminate the Department of Education I believe this is an effort to change the way we handle education. It is in my opinion the way we handle education in this country is very poor. I remember being in school when President George W. Bush passed the no child left behind act. All of a sudden teachers curriculum's were cut and we would have to spend weeks being taught how to take a multiple choice test. I remember coming home and telling my parents this and my mom was furious. She was like learning how to take a test is not learning and I completely agreed. The thing is all my mom could do was complain to my teacher who would agree but say there was nothing they could do. Not even the board of education in the town had any say over the matter and if you really think about it neither could the State if they wanted to.

To relate this to a more modern day example for those who work and school is far too behind them. Imagine you're at work, you have a plan for how you are going to execute your job, everything is going to plan and then upper upper management decides they are going to change your roles, responsibilities, and now what you spent months working on is gone. Nothing from upper management was taken into consideration, you were not approached about this, your boss was not approached about this and now everything is different. You can complain to your boss he tries to shoot it up the latter but no one is there to listen its too far up and the change has been made

To me this approach just doesn't work instead of trickling decisions down from the top to the bottom we need to learn how to work as more of a community and start going from the bottom up. The people who should be most involved with how children learn is the PTA. Parents and teachers should know how to handle this best I mean who else spends more time with said child. I feel from this approach for budgetary and quality of education if we have a strong PTA that works with a local board of Ed and you then bring your local representative into the mix, your mayor/selectman who work with the state and then for any additional funding the State cannot provide is where your federal representative and senator go to work with the federal government on getting any additional funds. Now I know this comes off as a simplistic approach BUT if we start going in this fashion the voice of a parent and the voice of a teacher becomes a lot stronger. Some kids learn slower than others, some kids learn visually, some kids learn practically. Everyone is different and to better control the diversity of a students needs it needs to start from the bottom. The department of education cannot take in all of these different circumstances so for them to put in all of these rules and regulations of how to teach makes it so much harder for teachers to do their jobs.

I'll end this rant by saying I think we can accomplish more as a community where the little guy has a voice than the current system now that by "trying" to make the playing field even it is not listening to parents, they're not listening to teachers and they're making decisions without getting all the facts. I know this isn't perfect and there are loopholes to this solution but I think it can workout a lot better and if we start taking this model of approach and improve upon it as a nation we'll have a better public education system.