God and the Ten Commandments and school prayer have all been expelled from the public schools. Christmas carols are out, Christian holidays are out. The latest decision of the Supreme Court said that children in stadiums or young people
in high school games are not to speak an inspirational moment for fear they may mention God’s name, and offend an atheist in the grandstand.
Source: Speech at Bob Jones University in Greenville SC
, Sep 18, 2000
Schools went wrong when judges & feds got involved
Over the last 30 years, ever since the judges have gotten heavily into education, and the National Education Association has gotten into control of that Department of Education, test scores go down, there’s
violence in classroom, things are going wrong. I would get rid of that Goals 2000, school-to-work-this idea of taking kids at a certain age and putting them right in as though we’re in “1984,” is an outrage. Let folks do it at the local level.
Source: Interview on MSNBC’s “Equal Time”
, Nov 2, 1999
Block grants to states with all federal education funds
I would take all that money from the federal government for primary and secondary education-I would take it and I would block-grant it out to the states, and I would tell the governors, listen to the local communities. Send the money back to the local
communities where parents and teachers and principals-they decide how best to improve education. That way you’ve got however many thousands of school districts competing with one another, and they’re not being dictated to by Washington.
Source: Interview on MSNBC’s “Equal Time”
, Nov 2, 1999
Federal role in science & scholarships; not grade schools
Q: Would you abolish the federal Department of Education? A: I would abolish those segments that deal with primary and secondary education. There is a federal role in higher education. We need to be first in science. That’s where I’d put some money. And
[some funds] for scholarships; that’s a federal responsibility. But primary and secondary education, that belongs to mom, and pop, and the teacher, and the principal and the deputy principal.
Source: Interview on MSNBC’s “Equal Time”
, Nov 2, 1999
Ed Dept should test the marketplace instead of testing kids
In children’s education, parents come first, teachers come second, and federal judges, not at all. If I am elected president, the bureaucrats at the Department of Education are not going to be testing kids,
they’re going to be testing the magic of the marketplace. All federal money for the schoolchildren of America will be sent back to the school districts of America where accountability begins and authority belongs.
Source: Announcement as a Reform Party Candidate, Falls Church, VA
, Oct 25, 1999
Replace Dept. of Education with states & parents
Parents everywhere are fighting for the hearts and minds of their own children. We must shut down the Department of Education, and return authority to the states and to the people.
We will preserve our heritage by passing on to our children, through locally controlled education, a love of our land, our history, our English language, and our traditional sense of right and wrong.
As President I will:
Abolish the Department of
Education and return its functions and funding to state and local control
Pass a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary prayer
Reject “multicultural” curricula that denigrate our history
Support tax-free education savings accounts.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues: Education of America’s Children”
, Jun 11, 1999
End bilingualism; end “hyphenated-Americans”
Not one federal dime should go to perpetuate bilingualism. We look forward to a day when there are no “hyphenated-Americans,” when all are proud to be called, simply, Americans.
Source: www.gopatgo2000.com/000-c-immigration.html 5/28/99
, May 28, 1999
Pat Buchanan on School Choice
Support home schooling but don’t give up on public schools
There’s something wrong in the hearts, and so it begins at home. And the home schoolers are one of the best answers to this whole thing, where they teach children values. But we can’t give up on the public schools either. And so I think what we need to
do is get the ACLU and the federal judges and the federal bureaucrats and the National Education Association out of the public schools of America, and God and the Ten Commandants back into the schools of America.
Source: Remarks at Home Schools Event, Washington, DC
, Sep 24, 1999
For vouchers, charter schools, & homeschooling
As President I will:
Support tuition vouchers that can be redeemed at all schools--public and private, secular and religious-that have no government strings attached.
Promote charter schools and magnet schools.
Protect the rights of
homeschooling parents to educate their children without government intrusion.
Oppose national testing and teaching standards as intrusions on the rights of parents and the primacy of local communities.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues: Education of America’s Children”
, Jun 11, 1999
Decisions by parents and teachers, not bureaucrats
We will dismantle the education bureaucracy, return the money to the taxpayers, so that education decisions are made by parents, teachers and local taxpayers, not faraway bureaucrats or federal judges.
Source: www.gopatgo2000.com/000-c-fedbureaucracy.html 5/28/99
, May 28, 1999
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