NSBA: Dems Support Federal Control of Education

[Igel]

1. Don't know.

But there's a tendency at the top to

(1) Assume that if there's a problem, we can know the solution and implement the same solution everywhere to great success. This is just plain arrogant. Civil servants should have both civility and humility.

(2) Distrust others, esp. local-yokels. They have to be ignorant bumpkins, after all, otherwise *they* would be Ed Sec. Those local-yokels are, in usual terms, "constituents," when you need their votes.

It's matched by two local tendencies:

(1) To assume that locals, because they haven't solved the problem, don't want to and are actively trying to hurt.

(2) To distrust locals, esp. if there's a past record of some sort of institutionalized distrust, and to assume that people that differ but little in genetics and IQ but who are a thousand miles away must be more trustworthy in general. Sort of "familiarity" breeds contempt and hoping for a knight in shining armor to come and perform a heroic rescue--and not just with lots of $.