As I See It
Shutdown of Department of Education long overdue
For over 40 years, the U.S. Department of Education has been a blackhole for taxpayer dollars. We’ve thrown billions into the system, yet reading and math scores are plummeting, literacy rates are barely hanging on, and we’re lagging behind other countries in STEM.
How much money would you throw into a rusty old car before realizing, hey, it’s time for an upgrade?
That’s what we’ve been doing with the Department of Education. It’s not an engine for progress. It’s a clunker that’s draining resources while our kids fall further behind. Trump’s plan to shut down the department is long overdue. It’s been a decades-long crisis, only getting worse, and has only consistently failed our children. It’s time to empower local school boards and give them the resources they need to provide our kids with a quality education.
Let’s invest in our future and put an end to this failed experiment. Our kids can’t afford to wait any longer.
— Andy Parrish
Bob N.
November 15, 2024 at 7:46 am
Did WIZM put your desk next to Solem and Ivan Garcia, Andy? Haven’t heard from Ivan since the election.
The Dept. of Ed. was once called the “Glut” by William Bennett when he was Ed. Secretary. It frustrated Bennett so much he developed a gambling problem.
On the other hand, the former Wi. Supt. of Schools, Tony Evers, was so inspired by the bureaucracy that he ran for Governor.
Come On Man
November 15, 2024 at 8:24 am
Again, Bravo Andy.
You are batting two for two.
The only people who will be upset will be the teacher’s unions who sink millions of dollars into political campaigns to make sure they take care of their members.
They always say “it’s all about our students”, but the test scores speak volumes.
Your comparison to throwing insane amounts of money toward a problem without a clear solution is spot on.
Example: Homeless situation in La Crosse.
The hardest thing in life is admitting your wrong about a certain problem.
Time to put on a pair of big boy / girl pants and get to work elevating our students test scores to help them compete in a global economy.
Give the power and money back to each state and let them adjust to whatever short comings their particular region has to deal with.
Big government should not be involved in every aspect of life when we have state government available.
Andy Parrish
November 15, 2024 at 10:09 am
Thank you!
walden
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 pm
I couldn’t agree more. In the 1970’s marxists took root in our universities and have educated all the “Dr. Jill, EdD’s” minted since. Just look at the miserable performance of La Crosse schools where abysmal academic performance is an afterthought while taxing property owners, protecting union teachers and the lib cause de jour are paramount.
There is a reason all the Lefty marxist candidates like Sen Eliz Warren only visit UW campuses…voting age freshly indoctrinated foolish kids who do really dumb things (to quote erstwhile candidate Karmala).
nick
November 16, 2024 at 7:34 am
The Democratic Party is the culprit. They have, especially in the metropolitan areas, given immense power to the unions in exchange for Their loyalty at the voting booth.
Their joint agenda is indoctrination not education.
They both want the eradication of charter schools that do teach fundamentals with good success rates.
If this were a business with stockholders it would not be in existence.
We all suffer for it.
Roy
November 17, 2024 at 11:24 am
Ya Think WIZM is following the LA Times owner’s lead?
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong detailed his plan to move his publication towards sharing “the views of all” in an appearance on Fox News on Thursday night.
The owner and billionaire biotech entrepreneur expressed the view on Fox News @ Night that the Times, which he purchased in 2018, had not recently demarcated which stories were news and which were opinion. “We’ve conflated news and opinion,” Soon-Shiong said in the appearance. “So, the first thing I want to do is ensure that we explicit say ‘This is news.’ And if it’s news, it should just be the facts, period. And if it’s an opinion, that’s maybe an opinion of the news and that’s what I call now a ‘voice.’”