AVG-SIS disagrees and she is on a school board. She calls them 'unfunded mandates'.
Some of which make general sense, but many are forced on schools and districts where it just doesn't make sense.
There's something about the baby and the bath-water in this... We, The People of The Whole Fucking Place should maintain a vested interest in making sure the children of the Great State of Mississippi are afforded all the same opportunities for home-town growth and development or world travel following their dreams as all the little dudes and dudetts hanging 10 in California. But nobody knows better where the opportunities of any given region will be over the next 20 years than The People of The Great State of ......, so local control is essential, eh?
With over 100 billion a year spent and rising the education system of Mississippi is getting worse than what it was when there was no Dept. of Education.
Education is parents. Attempting to throw $$ to change bad parents is like attempting to legislate morality.
As hard as thou shall try, thou can never polish a TURD.
You seem to have a pretty low opinion of The People of the Great State of Mississippi. It was just an example - Same could be true for The People of The Great State of Rhode Island or Montana.
The point is that micro managing curriculum should NOT be the purview of the federal government, but setting minimum standards for education should. When I hire a high school graduate from another state, I don't want to have to question him on his ability to read, write & cipher a bit.
I was also using it as an example same as you.
Oxford was a hard place to play back in the day and I have always respected Ole Miss.