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On the recordSeptember 10, 1998
help me understand why it is that, as a taxpayer sends their money to Washington, and Washington decides how to best provide education for those kids back home, what exactly is it in the water out here or what is out here that makes us smarter than the local parents and teachers and community? Why would we think that anybody in Washington knows better how to educate our kids in our home communities than the people in those communities do? Is it something out here that makes people brighter or able to better provide the education? Why would parents not be best prepared and best able to make decisions for the education for their own children? Why are we taking those dollars in the first place is the question?
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin
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Questioning federal involvement in local education funding and decision-making.

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