Dear Editor:
How is it, that with all the tax dollars allotted to educating our youth in America, we only rate in the middle of the world’s standings?
The United States spends more money on education than any other country in the world, yet we still get these less-than-expected results.
The answer is waste, fraud, ridiculous government grants and misuse of our hard-earned tax dollars by the federal government and teachers unions abroad.
We have teachers who are tenured with astronomical salaries, retirement plans and medical plans that not only can we not afford but also are one of the main culprits in the rising tuition to our schools. This tends to usurp the necessity for which our dollars should be used — for the youth — not someone’s bank statement or their ego.
We here 24/7 about how we need more money for education, which is the left’s answer to every problem — throw more wasted money at it in hopes of gaining more votes and power.
No, we need a thorough audit and restructuring of our education system, along with financial and moral disciplining there, as well as with our youth.
We the people need to remove the federal government from our educational system and return to the success of the local municipalities in the early 1960s, prior to the take over by Lyndon Johnson and the so-called “Great Society,” when all families were far better than today’s nightmare of dependency, when it came to education and the solidity of a home with both a mother and a father being present in their lives, proving that it takes a family, not a village.
Our current president claims to be a warrior for the working class and our youth. Really?
As many as 18% of our graduates are being forced into jobs below their education level — solely because of this president and his strangling, inept economic policies.
They are moving back into their bedrooms at home, instead of getting out on their own, because of these failed policies and our government’s latest Ponzi scheme — student loans.
Are you aware that student loans are the only loan on which you cannot declare bankruptcy? Students are graduating with tens of thousands of dollars of loan debt, and thanks to this administration and its policies, they can’t find a job that will allow them to ever pay this loan back. That smacks of control by the government to me.
Currently, in New Jersey, it costs the taxpayers $27,000 per year to educate a child in a regular school. How is that possible?
And now this government has raised the interest on student loans to double what it was before July 1.
It proves that education in the U.S. today is just another one of the government and socialist intervention failures.
Gary Keeler
Plant City
