I am a passionate supporter of and believer in education because it is the only thing that breaks the cycle of poverty. Education keeps Americans setting the standards for creativity and innovations that keep us leading the work with our homegrown "Yankee Ingenuity". We need to get the federal government OUT of education and put the states back in charge. The Department of Education is a totally invasive and unnecessary intrusion into the education of our children. We need to teach our children morality instead of sex education and get parents involved with schools again. Home-schooled children are leading the league on test scores and this shows that the schools are not performing despite the ever-increasing tax burdens placed on our homes. Teachers need adhere to basics of teaching and get politics out of classrooms.