I agree with that about the townships. That is at the local level where every parent knows somebody on the School Board. There needs to be some way of pooling resources to run the schools, so there is community involvement. But I want the Feds and States out of the decision making loop because the bureaucrats are too damned far away and aloof to respond to the local community's desires.
Just look at the way our betters in DeeCee treat us knuckle-draggers. I have difficulty trying to decide what Jimmy Carter is going to Hell for: Unleashing Iran's brutal Mullahs or creating the Department of Education.
@Cyber Liberty We are in agreement...
I am not as against state involvement as you are - The Constitution would lay such a thing as a dept of education upon the state or with the people...At some point, for there to be a system of gradation, a way to put achievement to paper, suitable for higher learning, I think a uniform or broadly uniform standard would have to exist that extends beyond the local level... And that collegiate level is not the sort of thing that a locality would be likely to provide.
In the case of such things, I will entertain state involvement, still far more controllable by the people, and probably a necessary evil.
But as I say, the standard, in the main, should rightly belong to counties and townships.