re: #78 HappyWarrior

Right. I mean I try to look at things on a case by case and using the actual environment around us. Like on paper, I do see the principle behind wanting more local control of education but at the same time, I see what the David Bartons of the world have done with control of education policy.

imho the dynamic is that local control is on the one hand more sensitive to and responsive to local conditions and needs, but easier to fuck with and also to hide what you are doing (quick - tell me what your state legislature has been doing!)

federal control is one-size-fits-all, expensive, often inefficient and clumsy, but is very visible and is more likely to reflect the values found in society in general

more generally, simplistic republican rhetoric often assumes that there is an all-good solution and an all-bad solution, when in fact most choices are trade-offs