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Our education systems has been continuously weak and fragile, would you support a Bills of Education Amendment?

• Politically, the US seems to disfranchise the American children's rights for a future earned though a better education systems. With so many unsolved problems and no other choices, the systems continue to allow majority of American students to graduate lacking essential knowledge, sustainable skills, advanced methods, healthy behaviors, and loving, caring hearts. Across the land, the improvements and reforms that have been made in many states' local school districts are not new, but just the rearrangements of what already exists. Old wine has been cleverly put into new decorative bottles.The federal policies enacted through Congress and the White House like Lyndon Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Acts, Ronald Regan's Nation At Risk, Bill Clinton's Goals 2000, George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind and Barack Obama's Race To The Top all have created new and different problems. Frankly, the solutions or enacted legislatures have been based upon protections of partisan ideologies, special interests, and individualism selffishness. In the meantime, our Supreme Court has been busy with conflicting, monumental cases that asked for interpretations and definitions of which and what rights or responsibilities in education agendas from state or federal shall be for local schools. The creation of the federal Department of Education had indicated the urgent needs for national education crisis but its cheerleading roles have consistently produced no positive results or winning scores. School children and classroom teachers continue to struggle as how to improve and make progresses in their daily tasks of learning and teaching. Additionally, career politicans just take advantage of deep divisions among social-class constituencies, confusing campaign/election enviroments, and parents' thirst for answers to growing school problems to run for public offices.They skillfully utilize tactics of how to blame and promise to get elected. The unsolved problems in our education systems keep got messier and take roots deep further down after elections.Constitutionally the education systems in this country also have proved to be a breeding ground for endless arguments, nonsense- debates, partisan wrangles and never-ending dilema whereas 50 states with 50 loosely organized education systems in pursuing national goals and progresses. But absolutely, nothing has been improved meaningfully to meet our enduring national challenges in US education. And fundamentally, no single voice, leadership, and accountability for what have happened and failed in the education business in this nation we call the United States of America. Obviously, something has been tried following elections but everything that our leaders have tried to advance our society through education and schools has experimentally done so deadly wrong that lead the US to the points as we see it as of today 12/04/2011, where massive failures and huge troubles compounded by economic downturns, high umemployment, budget crisis, healthcare dilemma, and social instabilities. These painful experiences in our modern history have been caused logically and mitigated forcefully by our own poor and fragile education systems. For the long period of time, we have barely obtained or harvested fertile accomplishments so that we could deploy them to extend the helping hands from the right people with valued citizenship and the right tools in fulfilling our commitment for a brighter future. With its unique resources and an advanced civilization, America would look much different today if a sound, effective education system embedded in every corner of its society. In a nation where majority of ifs people in the workforces that can be transformed into cycles of consumer-driven motivations and productive-efficiency activities, that nation can surely lead more of its citizens to economic prosperity, personal happiness, and defined well-beings. No doubts, it's going to be tougher for US to undo what is broke and to complete globally with other fast growing industrialized countries within this century. Education is the future and the US is on the verge of total disaster. Unless there is something new that has its full capacity to drastically change everything on the landscape, the USA is about to head to a unbearable social havoc will certainly weaken the whole systems alot more and cause it to collapse completely. Is there any solution and option left available for US to prevent such a destruction and to safeguard the America from breaking into pieces? The USA must change its Constitution and add new amendments - to be known as Bills of Education Amendments - that deal specially, directly with its fragile and cancerous education systems as soon as possible. Again education is the future and that would be American future can not be prepared with bad policies, plans or bad performances, bad politicans and bad promises. We can't no longer

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  NO! The Constitution for the Federal government gives no authority for the Feds to be involved in education. That is left to the States, or to The People (see 10th amendment). And yet there is a Cabinet-level Dept of Education and the teacher's unions wield tremendous power at the Federal level through union contributions, etc. And as you point out, all that high-level corruption has led to the situation we have today in the government schools. The solution of course is the free market, aka private schools. The responsibility to educate children does not belong with any level of government, it belongs to parents. Big-government solutions always cause problems, which cry out for bigger-government solutions, which cause problems. Problem>reaction>solution: repeat: repeat: repeat.... until a Leviathan government collapses under its own weight into a black hole and sucks us all down with it into the abyss. We're almost there now.. Check out this video http://www.trtam.com/