(Richard Santomauro) – There is a hard truth that America must confront: the Department of Education is a ship that has run itself aground.
And what do you do when a ship’s captain drives it into the rocks? You don’t hand him more money. You don’t reward his failure.
YOU FIRE HIM!.
Yet for decades, our nation has done the exact opposite.
We continue to vote for, fund, and defend the very system that has failed our children, betrayed parents, and produced generations unprepared for real life.
Test scores are collapsing. Literacy is declining. Discipline is nonexistent. Critical thinking has been replaced by political indoctrination.
And still, we’re told—year after year—that the solution is simply to spend more money.
Wrong. That is a lie, sold by the very people who profit from the system’s dysfunction.
The “Captains” of this broken ship—the career bureaucrats, the overpaid superintendents, the union bosses, the ideological school boards—have run education straight into the abyss.
And what do they say when confronted with their failure?
The same tired demand: “Give us more money and we’ll fix it.” But they never fix it.
They don’t want to. Because failure pays.
It’s time to decommission this ship.
Not repaint it. Not patch it. Not rename it.
Decommission it!
Education in America doesn’t need reform—it needs a rebirth from the ground up.
Control must be ripped away from the corrupt educational bureaucracy and returned to the people who actually care about children: parents and true educators.
Not the political activists masquerading as teachers.
Not the unaccountable school boards pushing ideological experiments.
Not the bureaucrats in Washington who have never set foot in a classroom.
For too long, parents have been treated like intruders in their children’s education.
For too long, teachers with courage have been silenced by unions that protect mediocrity and incompetence.
For too long, schools have abandoned reading and math in favor of social engineering and cultural manipulation.
Let’s be crystal clear: classrooms are for education, not indoctrination.
Math doesn’t have a political agenda. Biology isn’t “hate speech.” History isn’t a weapon to divide Americans into oppressors and victims.
Schools must return to teaching the fundamentals of success—literacy, science, logic, discipline, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, responsibility, achievement.
If public education cannot be saved—and today, it looks more like a hijacked vessel than a school system—then it should be replaced.
The future belongs to charter schools, homeschooling networks, private academies, skilled trade programs, and innovative learning systems led by people who actually want children to succeed.
Enough excuses. Enough failures. Enough lies.
The clock is ticking—and an entire generation is being lost while politicians and bureaucrats argue over pronouns.
Fire them all. Break the system. Rebuild it. Put education back in the hands of We the People.
Voter apathy is another example of citizens failing themselves and future generations! 15% turnout is embarrassing!
Get yourself out of the chair, out of the house, get engaged, become informed and VOTE!
People complaining about “democracy”? This isn’t democracy, it’s dementia!
Every single American who fails to vote should be embarrassed of themselves.
If not, I will be embarrassed for you, and I am calling you out. Because if we don’t save our children, we don’t save America.
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