Schools get 2 trillion funds,yet they fail

Why should we keep the Department of Education around?

When it spends about 2 trillion dollars of combined State, and Federal spending...each year!!!?

Clearly the US,does not have issues with teaching children, due to how little we  as a nation spend on the kids.

After all,we are ranked 20th something....

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And you fail completely in understanding that the US is number 23 or so in education and there are other Western nations that far surpass it that are also compulsionary. You and Mr. Gatto also fail completely in understanding that the US also has a huge anti-intellectual streak, not just in its schools, but also as part of the wider culture, which, needless to say propagates toxic memes such that the school system is inherently "evil" or some other such bullshit, further dragging the country into the abyss along with its education standards that are approaching that of the former Soviet republics. And lastly, education also lies with the individual and how much he/she gives enough of a shit to actually educate themselves on top of compulsory schooling, and, of course, their parents. Of course, when you limit yourself to reading the drivel that Mr. Gatto publishes, one won't immediately realize how recklessly moronic taking his ideas seriously are.