The U.S. Federal Government Should Abolish the Department of Education

Those were some great arguments! I'm debating this in real life, and I'm happy to admit that some of these I have not faced yet! So thank you for providing an intellectual challenge! So now, I will be addressing my opponent's three points. Point 1. Abolishing the Department of Education will not solve the problem. Point 2. 1.4 Trillion dollars will not be wasted Point 3. Reform is an option Now, let's move to the first point. My opponent says that my case is illogical because "It is not practical to fix this problem..." (That the Department of Education is Irresponsible) "...By abolishing the Department of Education." I would like to say that what my opponent is saying is illogical. My harm was that the Department of Education is Irresponsible. I did not explicitly mention this, but you can see through my evidence that the impact of this harm is that schools are not getting to choose their curriculum and it is harming students. So if the Department of Education is causing schools to not be able to help their students in the best way possible, then how would getting rid of the Department not fix the problem? For example, if your computer has adware that is causing ads to pop up all over your computer, the best way to get rid of the ads all over your computer is to get rid of the adware! So it is simply not true that is harder to solve the harms of a system without the system. Without the system, there are no harms! If the adware has a harmful effect on your computer getting rid of it will end the harmful effects. You can't argue with that. I'd also like to take some space to address my opponent's last paragraph, where he states that the schools would be in disorder because the order they are in does not exist anymore. I would like my opponent to read this mandate from my plan: Over a period of one year we will slowly but effectively dissolve all administrative functions and dismiss all employees, which would ultimately come to the conclusion of having no more Department of Education. This mandate was put in to ensure that schools would have ample time to transition. Now, let's move onto his 2nd argument. That 1.4 trillion dollars have not been wasted. I would like to read to you the Department of Education's mission statement: Our mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. Now I have shown you through evidence, that the Department of Education has not furthered student achievement and has not prepared students to compete in the global economy. In fact, we have seen little to no improvement in student achievement since the Department of Education was formed. So since the Department of Education has not gotten any closer to it's goal and done absolutely nothing that has furthered student achievement, then the money it has spent has been wasted. Now to my opponent's last argument. We should add regulations and reforms to the Department of Education in order to reform it. Many politicians have tried to reform the Department of Education with no success. So the past has proven that reforms do not work. Also, simply "reforming" the Department of Education would not solve one of the glaring issues my opponent forgot to mention. The fact that the Department of Education is glaringly unconstitutional. My opponent has neglected to mention this at all. And the only way to ensure that our Constitution is kept valued is to abolish the Department of Education. In review, abolishing the Department of Education shall ensure that the harms caused by it's existence shall disappear. Since the Department of Education has done nothing that has visibly impacted student success, it has failed it's mission statement, and we have spent 1.4 trillion dollars with no visible benefits. And lastly, reforming the Department of Education still does not solve for it's inherent unconstitutionality. It is for all these reasons that I stand firmly resolved that the Department of Education should be abolished.