cost the economy $2.5 million in potential GDP growth. This nation has also experienced the growth of government personnel, federal law enforcement, and financial capital executives.

2. In New York schools, interpretive regulations governing suspensions are over a hundred pages. Red tape, while lucrative for attorneys, has inflated the cost of K-12 education to $500 billion.

3. The field of education has become a legal minefield.61 percent of teachers and 77 percent of administrators avoid conscientious decision-taking because of lawsuits.

4. While most of D.C.'s students do not possess basic math and reading skills, the Washington Teachers Union misappropriated $5 million in teachers' dues without anyone held to account.

5. Feminist lawyers are attempting to collect $1 million, as they have from Brown U.,from each college they sue to enforce Title IX, an athletic gender quota system.

6. Despite Goals 2000 costing taxpayers enormously, one-fourth of 12th graders are functionally illiterate.

7.America has slipped from 1st to 18th in math and science scores in just a quarter of a century. How can America remain a free superpower just based on that stat alone? At this rate we will eventually achieve third world status.

8. In 1945, the average number of words in a written vocabulary of a six to fourteen year old was 25,000. Now that figure is 10,000.

Schools have become institutions of indoctrination and brainwashing for the sake of conformity. Attorneys have insured that the education system cannot discipline through compliance of fixed standards because it would be "discriminatory". Teachers and school boards are "rubber stamps" to state and federal policy.Higher education, flooded with money and mandates, has experienced only the growth of power of private organizations that control government. The populace are now reduced to dependency.

The "dumbing down" is a deliberate move implemented with calculated abandon by the bar associations and its beneficiaries. A society that is the the most entertained and yet the least informed will suffer from the confusion that sacrifices the system based on the rule of law. A nation that cannot provide the technically proficient and the free enterprise business people will be less likely to contest the stranglehold of the ruling elite and their nexus with the public and private sectors. America's current graduates are less appreciative of the foundations of American governance that this nefarious scheme has undermined. The curriculum fom K-post grad needs to be less diversified, particularly in the liberal arts areas. Instead the core competencies and basics need to be re-emphasised. Americans must start thinking for themselves.

"Let me control the textbooks and I will control the State"

-Adolph Hitler

Very Truly Yours,

Harsha Sankar

201 Interstate Drive

Covington, Virginia 24426

(540) 962-2141

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