Jackson Jambalaya

Close minded?! Hahahahahaha. Daniel, you are one of the most close-minded people I've ever encountered.

This is incoherent and nonsensical. I want that two minutes of my life back, please.

It's hard to believe these sentences are actually not written by someone else. It's well written and generally accurate.
Every state has their own departments of education and local school boards. And, frankly, that be the best place to start "culling".
The problem is that many states have don't have enough money to support schools in small towns and villages. Now repairs and building costs make funding difficult. One wealthy Mississippi family gave discounts to teachers for their supplies and bought band instruments a public school.
The main responsibility on the federal level to distribute funds for grants to fund maintenance and repairs of existing schools, build new schools and support colleges and universities. That's all of our country and all states and all local communities.
Mississippi would never have been able to have the number of Institutes of Higher Learning or new schools without those federal grants.
It wasn't until August 3,2018 that our students could be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key and compete against all other school grads who had one when searching for a job or applying to be an engineer or doctor or lawyer. Since it was MS State who qualified first, I would have thought D.L. knew that.
We could also have done a bit better with "separate but equal"...not all communities did. The wealthy religions had private schools in communities for decades for that reason. It took longer for smaller religions to " pool their resources".

The theory is fine. What I'd like to know is what D.L. would cut? Which departments have too many employees? What grant funding to the states would you eliminate? How much money could we save by eliminating sports or music departments? Few schools have a track team or golf team or tennis team maybe we could do without basketball or wrestling too.

Other than typing, public school taught nothing that’s ever been of any use to me. It was 12 years of busywork, 12 years of government daycare. After I graduated from public school and my schooling ended, I began to get educated. Educational bureaucracy doesn’t need to be simplified; it needs to be excised like a malignancy.

This guy is one of the most close-minded columnists I've ever read.

"This guy is one of the most close-minded columnists I've ever read", as opposed to being so open-minded all your sense has fallen out?

Agreed, just listen to Fox News or any other right wing op-ed and you’ll know every position DL will parrot. He’s a propagandist’s dream.

10:28 am Where did you go to school? After learning to read and write and math, including algebra and geometry. I learn spelling and grammar, history (U.S. and World), music, drama, and art as well. I took French for 5 years. I took sociology (the study of how societies rise and fall) and economics (we all pick stocks to pretend and invest in and did a household budget with for our families). We took science and had a science project every year. We learned to do proper research and write footnoted term papers. This was elementary to high school. In college, I learned Spanish and statistics, art history and P.E. added dance and table games added as well as a learning the rules of good sportsmanship to appreciate all the games common in the U.S. We all picked a major junior year. I went on to grad school. We had literature and read the classics. Did you know Don Quixote was written in 3 volumes? We also were given Amy Vanderbilts book of etiquette and were tested on it.
So...you came out of the womb knowing it all? Wow! So what was your first book? And, when did you start reading the newspaper?

DL is proving his point:

“Smart people don’t like me”
-Donald J Trump

You clowns will take anything negative about Trump, and run with it. Even if it hasn't been verified by a reputable source. Clown on, because that's all you are, clowns.

Your arm doesn't hurt from patting yourself on the back?