However, the suggestion to eliminate the Department of Education is a dangerous suggestion. We are in a time of desperation for additional budget-friendly resources and reorganization at all levels of public education (local, state, and federal). In my own small opinion, it will take creativity and an ability to compromise amidst a very turbulent power struggle at even the state level. Those interested should perhaps view the organization chart for MDE. An example of wasteful spending to pay multiple employees as bureau directors of each division of each bureau. A community effort spearheading accountability on the local level to attempt to reach a common goal of student achievement is perhaps necessary now more than ever, as our resources are being drained from federal to state to local levels of education. Our schools are our very resources for building a future workforce that can help us emerge from this recession and these uncertain times in Mississippi.

Also, by saying that we will emerge in a society that is totalitarian Marxist (a contradiction in and of itself) or anarchist is like saying we will either be a very compliant society or a very rebellious society. They are two separate and very different types of regimes, and the latter relies on the concept of public dissent and apathy. Neither are possible in a democracy like the American democracy, and the point proves nothing as it contradicts itself. Let’s have more faith than this in our nation.