The Department of Education, much like USAID, is treated as if it’s a sacrosanct charity instead of a government institution subject to scrutiny and regulation. The message surrounding government agencies and federal employees is generally unhinged these days; when did these people suddenly become saints and martyrs? Most of them are, in fact, parasites feeding on taxpayer dollars and they serve no purpose.
To be sure, progressives often elevate bureaucracy in their minds to a sanctified level. The Shadow Government is their god and the bureaucrats slithering through the dimly lit corridors of unaccountable power are treated like high priests. The system is worshiped because it is at war with America’s foundations. The left wants the west to die, and the bureaucracy is more than happy to accommodate while filling their pockets with easy cash.
The Department of Education (ED) is particularly beloved by the political left because it is the mechanism by which public schooling is twisted into a propaganda machine. The ED is the key to everything; in cooperation with teachers and teachers unions they are creating the next generation of woke adherents, and your kids are the target.
But beyond the issue of political indoctrination there’s the obvious problem of obligation versus outcome – What does the ED actually do to fulfill its supposed duties? In truth, it does absolutely nothing. Lets examine five reasons why the Department of Education is a complete failure as an agency and why it deserves to be eliminated.
The More Money The ED Receives The Less Education American Students Get
In 2010 the ED’s budget was $94 billion, by 2024 it had ballooned to $268 billion (a 160% increase). But what are US taxpayers getting for this massive chunk of change they are spending annually? National testing averages in reading and math continue to decline dramatically in the past decade. Scores barely eek out gains on testing results from the 1970s before the ED was founded.