Children Will Be Left Behind. -Forbes Magazine

[Genesys]

Originally posted by: rahvin
he constitution expressly forbids the federal government from handling Education and explicitly gives the states control.

where does the constitution expressly forbid the federal govt from handling education?

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: Genesys

Originally posted by: rahvin
he constitution expressly forbids the federal government from handling Education and explicitly gives the states control.

where does the constitution expressly forbid the federal govt from handling education?

I'd like to know too...

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
What they really need to do is stop sticking the special ed. kids in with the normal students. All they do is slow the rest of the class down.

You've obviously never seen that in effect. At our school, that happened and the special ed students simply didn't learn crap. They got smoking breaks throughout the day, and wandered the halls constantly. After all that, they still graduated

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch

Originally posted by: Genesys

Originally posted by: rahvin
he constitution expressly forbids the federal government from handling Education and explicitly gives the states control.

where does the constitution expressly forbid the federal govt from handling education?

I'd like to know too...

Any power not explicitly listed as a power of federal government is reserved for the states and people. Do any of you take american history? Federalism has begun to change the idea that the constitution is there to limit the powers of government, when in fact it exists to DEFINE the power of the federal government with EVERYTHING else reserved to the states and people. If it isn't expressly mentioned in the constitution as a power of government then it is explicitly denied to the federal government. If you want to give the fed's power over our education system you should tell your representative to propose an admendment to the consitution. Otherwise the federal piggy should stay the hell out of what is a state issue.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: rahvin

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch

Originally posted by: Genesys

Originally posted by: rahvin
he constitution expressly forbids the federal government from handling Education and explicitly gives the states control.

where does the constitution expressly forbid the federal govt from handling education?

I'd like to know too...

Any power not explicitly listed as a power of federal government is reserved for the states and people. Do any of you take american history? Federalism has begun to change the idea that the constitution is there to limit the powers of government, when in fact it exists to DEFINE the power of the federal government with EVERYTHING else reserved to the states and people. If it isn't expressly mentioned in the constitution as a power of government then it is explicitly denied to the federal government. If you want to give the fed's power over our education system you should tell your representative to propose an admendment to the consitution. Otherwise the federal piggy should stay the hell out of what is a state issue.

"Any power not explicitly listed as a power of federal government is reserved for the states and people. "

Not for a Dictatorship.

 

[arsbanned]

What they really need to do is stop sticking the special ed. kids in with the normal students. All they do is slow the rest of the class down.

May you have a child who is special ed.

 

[wyvrn]

Texas has a really bad problem with it's schools. I think we are ranked 48 out of 50 states. Our problem now is funding, we have a constitution that cannot be changed unless approved by popular vote (which never works), so we rely on property taxes to fund education. So some areas have nice schools, and many areas have poor schools. If we could enact a state income tax and reduce the property tax, we could distribute the monies more evenly and have more control over how much is collected. Further, businesses are moving out of Texas because property taxes do not take into account net income, so a struggling/new company who pays a set property tax has no incentive to stay in Texas. We could fix it all by changing the tax system, but changing the TX constitution seems like a near impossibility.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: rahvin

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch

Originally posted by: Genesys

Originally posted by: rahvin
he constitution expressly forbids the federal government from handling Education and explicitly gives the states control.

where does the constitution expressly forbid the federal govt from handling education?

I'd like to know too...

Any power not explicitly listed as a power of federal government is reserved for the states and people. Do any of you take american history? Federalism has begun to change the idea that the constitution is there to limit the powers of government, when in fact it exists to DEFINE the power of the federal government with EVERYTHING else reserved to the states and people. If it isn't expressly mentioned in the constitution as a power of government then it is explicitly denied to the federal government. If you want to give the fed's power over our education system you should tell your representative to propose an admendment to the consitution. Otherwise the federal piggy should stay the hell out of what is a state issue.

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