Do We Ever Learn?

So let's actually begin with a story from Daily Signal, which is informational, and it's about testing in schools and how schools in America aren't really doing that well.

The headline here is, What Does a Test Say About Your Child? There's More Than Meets the Eye.

And they go into how parents can assess whether or not their kids are being educated properly.

Are they successful? Are the schools any good? And how would you do that? And there's a bunch of different strategies, a bunch of different tools in the toolkit.

You can look at report cards, but that's kind of hard because there could be some great inflation.

You could have the standardized tests, but again, we're coaching kids on the standardized tests and are the standardized tests even testing the material? We don't know.

You could look at graduation rates and the same thing applies.

Are we just pushing kids on through? So what Daily Signal starts to dig into here is a thing called the honesty gap that really does exist.

So just for your information, this is something that if you're a parent, of a child in school you should probably know this so you don't make the mistake of sending them back to one of those satan's youth ministries if they happen to be a public school this honesty gap researchers were looking at the gap between students scoring really well on a state test and then how their scores compared to the national test.

The national test comes from the nation's report card.

It's the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

And they found that the honesty gap was about 15%.

So at the state level, We are inflating kids' scores by about 15% so the parents think that the schools are much better than they really are.

But that's nothing new.

We've heard about America's failing schools forever and ever and ever.

And as always, the answer was local control.

Now, I remember coming up on two years, I believe actually wrote it down 586 days ago, March 20th, 2025.

That was when the president of the United States signed an executive order to get rid of the Department of Education.

This was the promise that Republican presidents had made over and over again.

and they just failed on that promise.

And finally, we got the guy in there who was going to do the thing.

He was going to get rid of the Department of Education, which doesn't teach any children.

All it does is take lots of money that's been stolen, I mean taxed from you, and use it as golden handcuffs for school districts in order to control their curriculum.

The Department of Education, though, still exists.

We keep on learning the same lesson.