Education

Education, a process of learning and discovery, then formulating an understanding of most all things that compose our physical universe, including those of an abstract nature. It should be the crown jewel of our existence, but intellectual enlightenment can be contaminated by false information that has a deceiving motive behind it. Because of this, today’s educational process has become an endeavor that has lost a large portion of the trust it once enjoyed. In many cases, the misuse of it became responsible for much of the cultural decay of the last beacon of freedom left in the world. Our beloved U. S. A. That may be a strange description of a procedure that brought us from the cave and the club to the super power of the world. But while the concept of "learning" is still as pure as it has ever been, the vehicles of information have been hi-jacked by people with ulterior motives of cultural manipulation. Modern classrooms are no longer centered on basic elementary skills, they have been heavily invaded with the indoctrination of anti-American liberalism and cultural value decay.
------Ronald Reagan was right, we should abandon the Department of Education, and begin a carefully designed process of shifting educational responsibilities back to the environments that gave them birth. Rural, urban or metro, each of these have unique educational characteristics that fit the specific needs of the indigenous population. One size fits all does not work.

When I was a child, Elementary schools in rural America, were almost all located in the townships in which the attending children lived. Teachers were usually people born relatively close to the schools in which they taught. They were paid, hired and regulated by the local population. They taught the fundamentals of reading, writing and math, supplemented with the moral and ethic standards of the communities. The learning process even included some religious and patriotic supplements to the curriculum, also approved by the locals. Then came the government theorists. They promised better facilities, better educators, specialized curriculum, and even bussing. It sounded full of promise. Too much to pass up, and was readily accepted by the majority. It all worked very well in the beginning. After several generations, parents lost control of the curriculum, all vestiges of religion were removed from the classroom in the name of fairness to others of different faiths, including atheism. Home taught values became diluted with morals and ethics from cultures in far away places, imported educators and government regulators changed the rural philosophies of the indigenous population. Whether generations of public school graduates contaminated the younger university professors, or if the university professors brought academic decline to the public schools is a matter of debate. The result was the same. Most all of our universities have been so liberalized that it is almost impossible for conservative speakers to utter a single word before they are shouted off the stage by the more radical students. While the campus administrators stand fearfully by. The first amendment means nothing to them unless they claim that same constitutional right for themselves.

I know there are many teachers, that would defend the current school system because of union regulated retirement, and I understand that. Retirement benefits or current educational employees need not disappear with administrative change. However, the pattern of national educational decline as a whole is beyond repair. The current school system must be completely revised and relocated, otherwise our American values and the very moral foundation of this country will completely disappear. We can not survive for very long as a secular state. History has proven this truth over and over. Education has to reflect our American heritage and it's Constitution or we will surely fail as a great nation. This single fact is paramount to our survival and can not be over emphasized.

I will work to make positive changes to the educational system in our county.