In pandering to the GOP's Reaganite torch holders, Rand Paul devolving education regulation to the states would promote more privatization, more entrepreneurial charter school fiefdoms less interested in actual education than ironically profiting from banking models of pedagogy, all controlled by micro-plutocrats, driven by evangelical nostrums and revisionist history.
The new educational warlords will be local boards of education filled with open and stealthy nutlogs of all stripes and intelligence levels. More David Barton historians in every state run by "right-to-educate" laws not unlike "right-to-work", making education and class status even more of a commodity, and heck why not pay every teacher in bitcoins.
The libertarian-leaning candidate also said he would like to do away with the Department of Education, an idea he said was originally part of President Ronald Reagan’s presidential platform.
“When Ronald Reagan ran in 1980, it became part of the platform that we were opposed to the Department of Education, I still am,” the 52-year-old physician said. “I think it ought to go back to the states.”
Paul went on to explain that there has long been a “deep philosophical divide” in the GOP when it comes to education and that he expects it to be a distinguishing factor in the Republican nominating contest, taking indirect aim at Jeb Bush, one of his most formidable likely opponents, by criticizing the education policies of his brother, President George W. Bush.
“Under a Republican administration, we doubled the size of the Department of Education and we now have warped into ‘No Child Left Behind’ and now ‘Common Core,’” Paul said. “This is a deep philosophical divide in the party and what you’ll see, and what I am seeing as I go about the country [is a] spontaneous movement that is unhappy about Washington telling them what kind of curriculum they can have in New Hampshire and I’m going to continue to fight it.”
Eddie Haskell: When I was a little kid in kindergarten, we had a woman taking care of me, and she sent me to school with a home permanent.
Wally Cleaver: Boy, Eddie. What happened?
Eddie Haskell: Well, I told my father about it and he made a great big joke. You know somethin'? I don't think I've ever really told him anything since then.
Wally Cleaver: Gee, Eddie, then how come you're always jumpin' on other guys, and makin' fun of them?
Eddie Haskell: Look, Sam, if you can make the other guy feel like a goon first, then you don't feel like so much of a goon.
Wally Cleaver: Ahhh, I don't get that.
Eddie Haskell: Of course you don't. That's 'cause you never went to kindergarten with a home permanent.
Wally Cleaver: [ruffling Eddie's hair] You know somethin' Eddie? It's holdin' up real good.