Joe Scarborough: “I have got a 7-year-old boy that is in public schools, and I am very concerned about what type of educational system he…”

“I have got a 7-year-old boy that is in public schools, and I am very concerned about what type of educational system he is going to be growing up in. You look at the statistics of what has happened since the Department of Education was established in 1979, and every single statistic points to a decay in educational standards across this country. The Department of Education has been an absolute and total abject failure. You know, they only provide 8 percent of funding to local schools, and yet they dump on them 55 percent of their paperwork. And people talk about, well, what is the problem with having this bureaucracy; gee, it is a great symbolic gesture. It is robbing money from my child, from your children, and from children all across the country.”