bobmurph
12-12-2007, 03:18 PM
Education Question:
"What is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of imporoving education in the United States and how would you address it?"
Ron Paul Response:
"Probably the federal government. We've been involved at the federal level for over 50 years. We've had a Department of Education. It used to be the policy of the Republican party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally got in charge and had a chance to do something, and we doubled the size of the Department of Education.
Now we have "No Child Left Behind". The teachers don't like it. The students don't like it. The quality of education hasn't gone up, the cost of education has gone up.
We need to look to our local resources. We need to release the creative energy of the teachers at the local level. But what we can do immediately is give tax credits. I have a bill that would give tax credits to the teachers to raise their salaries. At the same time, we should encourage home-schooling and private schooling and let the individuals write that off.
The parents have to get control of the education. It used to be that the parents had control of education through local school boards. Today its the judicial system and the executive branch of government, the beauracracy, that controls things. And it would be predictable that the quality would go down and the money would go to the beauracrats and not to the educational system here at home."
I thought he gave a great answser to this question. He didn't attack the teachers or the teachers union. I think his response to this question could really hit home with parents and with teachers.
"What is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of imporoving education in the United States and how would you address it?"
Ron Paul Response:
"Probably the federal government. We've been involved at the federal level for over 50 years. We've had a Department of Education. It used to be the policy of the Republican party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally got in charge and had a chance to do something, and we doubled the size of the Department of Education.
Now we have "No Child Left Behind". The teachers don't like it. The students don't like it. The quality of education hasn't gone up, the cost of education has gone up.
We need to look to our local resources. We need to release the creative energy of the teachers at the local level. But what we can do immediately is give tax credits. I have a bill that would give tax credits to the teachers to raise their salaries. At the same time, we should encourage home-schooling and private schooling and let the individuals write that off.
The parents have to get control of the education. It used to be that the parents had control of education through local school boards. Today its the judicial system and the executive branch of government, the beauracracy, that controls things. And it would be predictable that the quality would go down and the money would go to the beauracrats and not to the educational system here at home."
I thought he gave a great answser to this question. He didn't attack the teachers or the teachers union. I think his response to this question could really hit home with parents and with teachers.