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Uh, wouldn't this actually be called something like "the US Department of Education"?

It's been a rousing success, too - it's allowed our Ministry of Truth to claim things like "comrades! Our production of students that pass the standardized test is up 85% this quarter!".

It's all about families, man. Good families teach people what's really important - not federal departments of anonymoustaxeatingbureaucrat.



And when a large proportion of families (broken, dysfunctional, otherwise unable) fail to teach kids what's important: what then?


I don't know many good answers to that question - but in my bones I know that the federal government isn't one of them.


People didn't worry about that (i.e. formal education systems) until only recently, but I guess what's "important" has gotten more complex and the rate of "dysfunction" has increased.


What now?




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