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"keep schools open until 6" is one of these things that clearly demonstrates that people really don't understand how government works. If you want your schools
by cjoh 15y ago
"keep schools open until 6" is one of these things that clearly demonstrates that people really don't understand how government works.
If you want your schools open until six, take it up with your school board, not the freakin' president.
- veidr 15y agoYeah, but if you want all schools to be open until six, I'd say the president is a reasonable place to start that discussion. (That's not to say that I think this (good) idea could ever be implemented in the USA, though.)
- Gormo 15y agoIf you want all schools to be open until six, you need to take it up with each of the thousands of local school boards in the US, along with the many thousands of charter, private, and other independent schools. The federal government has no policy-making authority w/r/t education in the United States. And if such authority did exist at the federal level, the appropriate place to start would be Congress, not the executive branch. In reality, of course, you'd never be able to create a universal policy to reflect your particular vision of how education ought to work, and that's a good thing.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoBureaucratic authority, no. Influence to the point of defacto authority, yes.
- brianobush 15y agofunding usually doesn't happen on that level. It would be state-level (or fed), unless the district could pass a bond measure to fund it alone.