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Joe Scarborough: That point the gentleman made, that really answers why we got elected in 1994. The question was to the American people…

On the recordOctober 11, 1998
That point the gentleman made, that really answers why we got elected in 1994. The question was to the American people, who do you trust? Do you trust politicians with your children's education or do you trust parents? Democrats for 40 years trusted politicians in Washington. We trusted parents. Do you trust bureaucrats at the Department of Education bureaucracy or do you trust teachers? I can tell you I know my children's two teachers. I do not know a single bureaucrat right down the street at the Department of Education. If my child is having trouble reading, or with his math, if he is having trouble in his school, I can go to the source. I do not want 60 percent of their paperwork that they have to do coming from Washington, D.C., and that is what an Ohio study said it did come from. I would rather them have that time working on lesson plans for my children. It does come back to the question of who do you trust.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Discussing education policy and the role of parents versus bureaucrats.

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