Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Elizabeth Warren Badly Fumbles on Socialized Healthcare" video.

  1. One of the things you don't understand about public education is that every state and federal dollar provided to the schools is tied to state and federal mandates. So someone in the White House gets a bright idea, or in the DOE gets a bright idea, or in state or federal legislature gets a bright idea, that bright idea is passed to the schools as a "new initiative." All these new initiatives have to be administered. That means people to make sure that the mandate's being followed, along with all the new forms that need to be filled out so some "compliance officer" can fill out a spreadsheet for the politicians or bureaucrats who run compliance. The biggest, newest thing is Diversity and Inclusion. An entirely new, entirely parasitic layer of bureaucracy that does NOTHING to actually educate kids. It just goes around making sure that everyone is politically correct, according to that day's definition of political correctness. There's already (an essentially useless) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission making sure you hire enough people of color to please the current ruling junta. The 14th Amendment already exists. Equal Protection under law. Anybody can sue under that amendment if an employer's acting like a dick. We spend more on education than ever before, but the funds are HORRIBLY misallocated to bureaucrat drones who produce not a single lesson, grade not a single student's paper, run zero copies of tests, etc. Nowadays, faculty are their own desktop publishers, with essentially zero help from staff. We did more for less when there weren't any computers! A college would have a president and a vice president and that was pretty much IT. A dean of letters and science. A dean of arts and humanities. Maybe a dean of vocational-technical programs. And one secretary for each and one secretary for one or two or 3 departments. Now there are 8 vice presidents, and about the same number of deans as there used to be. There are more secretaries than ever, but they don't support the faculty (i.e. students). The colleges have to be run that way, because a HUGE chunk of the college's income is the federal financial aid paid to students. When they take the king's schilling, they have to comply with all the rules and mandates handed down by the king, whoever the king happens to be at that time, and whatever mood they're in on Tuesday. Every one of those mandates creates a huge amount of effort and resources to comply. What's sad is that the colleges don't fight that stuff. They LOVE that stuff. It means they get more people to boss around. And since there's zero competition, it doesn't matter how inefficient it is. So in an age where GREAT CONTENT is available FREE (or almost free) online, the cost of education SOARS. And none of the money goes to the actual teaching and learning.
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