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Ramaswamy Says Dept. Of Education Should Be Shut Down; Here’s What He’s Proposing Instead

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Republican presidential candidate and technology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy made a call for the Department of Education to be shut down and proposed moving the funding that is currently sent to the agency to the “hands of parents” so they can decide for themselves where to send their kids to school. This is a brilliant idea. The Department of Education is currently responsible for the progressive indoctrination that is happening in public schools across the country. The federal government should never have a hand in educating the future generation. In fact, that very idea is something that totalitarians throughout history have applauded because it enables them to create whole generations of individuals who are loyal to their ideology.

If you look in the Holy Bible, it clearly states in the book of Deuteronomy that God lays the responsibility for a child’s education on the parent. The government has no place in education. Not at the federal level. A group of parents in a community can certainly come together and form a group that will oversee the education of their children and utilize the free market in order to provide curriculum that lines up with their values and beliefs. No government is necessary.

Imagine a system where teachers can charge what they feel their skill set is worth and actually make a living instead of scraping to get by?

According to the Daily Wire:

Ramaswamy made the comments Wednesday during the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debatein Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More than $79 billion was allocated to the Department of Education in fiscal year 2023. Ramaswamy also advocated the end of local teachers unions, which have been a barrier to school choice and charter school initiatives. 

“We have a crisis of achievement. Let’s shut down the head of the snake, the Department of Education. Take that $80 billion and put it in the hands of parents across this country. This is the civil rights issue of our time,” he stated during the presidential debate. “Allow any parent to choose where they send their kids to school. End the teachers unions at the local level to allow public schools to compete, and then revive our national identity.”

Additionally, Ramaswamy said that high school seniors should be required to take the same civics test that immigrants must pass to become citizens. He said that the crisis in American education, as kids have seen declining scores in key subjects like math and reading, is partly linked to fatherlessness. 

“Part of the problem is we also have a federal government that pays single women more not to have a man in the house than to have a man in the house, contributing to an epidemic of fatherlessness, and I think that goes hand in glove with the education crisis as well, because we have to remember: Education starts with the family; and, the nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind,” Ramaswamy continued.

Several of the other candidates on the debate stage had similar answers concerning the issue of education. Sen. Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, also took an opportunity to slam teachers unions.

“The only way we can change education in this country is to break the backs of the teachers’ unions. They are standing in the door-house of our kids, locking them into failing schools, locking them out of the greatest future they can have,” Scott remarked during the event.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis stated that leftist politics were destroying education all over the nation.

“We need education in this country, not indoctrination in this country,” he remarked.

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