Submitted by Gordon Crump, Mar 5, 2007 06:45

Certainly, I am not the only one who believes that the future of US education rests with the action Congress takes or doesn't take in decisions this year.

US education is in termnal condition, suffering a funds bloat and giving next to nothing in return.

The amount of work needed to right the course is probably too much to expect Congress to accomplish. Senators Kennedy and Miller will in the end insist on the same old failed course, but with more money attached and the voices for doing the heavy lifting to truly fix the education scandal, will no doubt grow tired and comprise with the far left, business-as-usual crowd.

Until Congress spends the taxpayer's money only on programs that truly educate and not the plethora of feel good, left wing propaganda projects, the public education system will continue to be mired in its own feces.

Until the country is ready to kick the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers out of the schools, politicians will continue to swap their votes for the NEA and AFT support. No idea or program is too ridiculous to win the backing of these elements, if they raise salaries and benefits. That is why public school kids can't read and write the language or do simple math.

The inmates have been in charge of the asylum for nearly 75 years, running it to their own benefit and cheating children, parents and taxpayers. What a mess!

A few chores that seem to be obvious to everyone but the education lobby are: ending teached tenure, which protects and institutionalizes incompetence; weed out the incompetents in the teacher corps and supervisory and boards of education, insist on so-called supervisors and boards members havng some show of management skills, kill all programs, including sports, sex education, psychological experimentation,etc. that do not bear directly on learning.

This cannot happen in a week.

But it is well past time we got started on bringing some sanity to a system that has been out of control for three-quarters of a century.

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