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Jack Kingston: let me conclude with this. Last week a teacher in Darien, Georgia told me that in an 8-hour day she spends two to three…

On the recordApril 16, 1996
let me conclude with this. Last week a teacher in Darien, Georgia told me that in an 8-hour day she spends two to three hours filling our paperwork, about 50 percent of it is for the Federal Government. That is 10 to 15 hours a week that is not spent teaching Johnny how to read, write, and do arithmetic. She can teach her children better than the bureaucrats who are making her fill out the paperwork in Washington. What we are asking with that and all these other examples, let the local people do what they know how to do best and let the Washington bureaucrats stop the micromanagement, return freedom to the people and increase personal responsibility along the way.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the impact of federal paperwork on teachers during a speech.

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