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To: koan who wrote (54087)	10/2/2013 9:31:35 PM
From: sm1th	4 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Paul Smith Thehammer TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

And most schools are run by local school boards elected by the people. So all public schools are run at the local level. So you would agree with eliminating the Fed Dept of Education, since all education decisions are better made at the local level?

To: koan who wrote (54087)	10/3/2013 12:24:57 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Democracy Being against policies you support, or even popular policies, does not equal being against democracy. Public schooling does not equal democracy. The GI bill does not equal democracy. No policy equals democracy, democracy (in most cases including in the US usually "indirect democracy"), is a broad general method to decide on policies, not a policy. And the only people I ever found who did not like public schools were the ones who failed at school. Or who's public schools had failed them (look at Detroit as an example), or who keep spending more and more and more on public schools without seeing better education as a return for all that extra money.