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Richard L Gilbert's avatar

I had previously told you I was in favor of destroying the DOEd. You graciously replied.

I am just now looking at your 3/31 email (Transform K-12 Education Now).

I only skimmed it. It would be wonderful if things like you recommend could actually be implemented. I am overjoyed at what our President is already doing on MANY, MANY, issues and fronts. But what you recommend could only be done if someone who had the knowledge, background, and vision that you (and maybe a few others) have, was given authority to do it, on a clean slate. I wish it could be.

(I have a very jaundiced view of government, having retired from local government in a mid-size northern city. There is almost NOTHING government can, or will, do well. Only allow government do something if no one else can, or will, do it.)

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John Parmentola's avatar

As I mentioned, I have done this. So why hasn’t it been done before?

No one except a rare individual with authority who has the courage would do it. You must have confidence in the input/output metrics and the system's comprehensive review with proper metrics to assess three years of performance.

Most government program reviews are rubber stamps. The reviewers are never asked to return to listen to improvement plans after the review and see how they were implemented.

If you think this is easy to do, I can testify that it isn’t. It’s a lot of work requiring tenacity and approval from above. There is also a lot of political spin to deal with, as you can see now, with the crazy and stupid people going after Musk.

Randy Weingarten would be following you with a mob everywhere, yelling at the top of their lungs!

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