sorry the problem with not being on meds is, one still needs their sleep.

You do know that you had a very long post so I am addressing it one paragraph at a time right? Will answer this one but it will back me up a little!

I'm not entirely kidding, I haven't fully explored it, but would like to. In Michigan it is not centralized. School Districts have a lot of control, millages passed do not put the money into the schools but into other pursuits, so when the city says "the schools in our roofs is leaking, this new millage has got to be passed, just sign here, don't read it" I kinda just say no. You start looking at problems and you start seeing that the problem goes farther than it seems. For the next part read the Li Chi. One of the few set of books I actually get returned to me.

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Basically, you are kinda making a lot of assumptions so will try to take it point by point. Jesus, you owe me a trip to a database with some statistics.

Ok Point One:

Not kidding about centralized Education

Point Two:

Not disagreeing that Teachers are paid professionals. Do think they are not paid enough, but have argued with people about this and have been in the war zone, Jackson's 187 is a trip to disneyland compared to some of the crap I've been exposed to in some schools.

Point Three:

What, pray tell, does a senator or even the president, for God's sake, know about teaching a kid how to read, or do arithmetic or perform music? WHAT DO THEY KNOW??? The answer is, of course, not a damn thing.

Well they would know how to teach politics, or how to run for office.

Point Four:

You want to force a certain number of schools on an area? Who pays for that? People's taxes are already used to pay for the public schools we have. You propose more public money?

No, just bringing up something that would have to be considered. Everyone pays, it would be in a pot. It would be the same money for the schools we already have. No I don't propose more public money, it should cost less, however, did mention control of administration.

Point Five:

Don't let individual school administrators (and God forbid, teachers) make any decisions on their own about what they need in their classrooms.

I disagree

. That's like letting the government tell a supermarket manager how many cases of green peppers to order.

I really hate farm subsidies it only benefits the Carnegies

Point Six:

The government isn't there in the school

Agreed.

Point Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen

Teachers earning "double" what they make? So, teachers are rich now...Uh, dude, do you have any idea how long it takes most teachers who have to pay for at least 6 years of college to make a good living? The people that supposedly hold the future in their hands have to take on second and third jobs to make ends meet. June, July and August aren't vacation time. They are secondary income time. The problem with centralized control of education has nothing to do with teacher salaries. Money would be poured into every pet program of whatever bureaucrat who wanted to get their face in the papers this week.

Some are; no; I know; I know; agreed; AGREED (See text before First Point)

Point Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen

I have no idea what you're talking about with regards to poor, middle-income and wealthy schools. From that perspective, its a wash. There is no monetary benefit in the model you use (though I have no idea where you came up with it).

It is about moderating the pot, so that kids that would like to achieve have as much opportunity as everyone else. That is the point.

Point Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twent-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four

Publishers going out of business? Why? I can think of several good reasons for publishers to go out of business, the primary one being that they put out a bad product (kind of like every other business on the planet). But what's the deal with "racially specific" histories? What about freaking HISTORY?!?!? That's a big problem I have now with the educational system. Thanks to political correctness and feelings-based education, we don't teach a full history anymore, and if you've ever looked at a history textbook published after 1990, you'd see that America is always the bad guy. You propose more indoctrination by handing complete control of the educational system to the government? God help us if that ever happens.

A centralized educational system would directly impact publishers, in order to be more efficient and to save money a centralized educational system would have text books electronically delivered via EVDO onto a Kindle. Because racially specific histories without a comprehensive history leads to racial divisiveness...wright?

Recommend "Lies my teacher told me" and "What our Historic Sites got wrong"

Like I said have to see how it would work out. You can't say god in school.

Now, can you please get back to the original post and actually answer the question of how I am wrong about a president "teaching" the population how to live? It flies in the face of what it means to be an American. America isn't just a place or collection of citizens. It's an idea...an idea that humans are best suited to solve their own problems by using their own creativity and ingenuity. Being American means that you believe in bottom-up governance, i.e. the government works for us. If you believe that top-down governance by force is the solution to the human condition, you are not an American.

Point -1, -2, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine

This is what the civil war was fought and lost over, so hate to break it to you but states rights is secondary to the right of the republic.

Look this happy hoo ha that you folks are talking about works great until you want Michigan's water because Georgia's has misappropriated there's.

This whole deal with Georgia could have been averted if they did a few common sense things, yeah I lived in Georgia during the time this protest was going on btw. They should have used the d***n aggregate in the cement and paid double. That would have allowed the water to go back into the ground table. They should have utilized a conservation plan along the coastlines of their rivers, and they should have regulated construction so that half the da**n state is not covered in cement.

If any of those folks who conducted the prayer vigil "ooooh lord whadda we do now! ooooohhhhlordie" had stopped to read the book of Genesis about how they are the caretakers of the land etc. Maybe their lack of water wouldn't be such a crises as it is today.

Lastly, for all of you religious fanatics out there who believe that a woman is going to destroy the world when she gets elected to office: Who are you to try to stay god's hand and next get Genesis right before you try to interpret Revelations.