Why not legislate truth at the national level?

[Boojatta]

Is it true that when an individual reaches adulthood, all academic records about the individual are automatically destroyed? I didn't think so.

An individual's opportunities are wide or narrow depending on that record. To some extent, that record is determined by judgments as to whether or not a student's statements on various academic topics were thought to be consistent with officially true statements. Note that actually consistency is not necessarily relevant. What matter are judgments that were made by authorities with respect to alleged consistency.

However, what is officially true may depend upon the teacher, textbook (or unpublished documents that may be printed and distributed to students as a substitute for a textbook), department head, principal, school, school board, state department of education, etc.

Typically, there is no record of what the student's actual statements were. There is merely a final evaluation in any given course. Thus, if we consider all adults throughout America, there may be many adults whose opportunities are limited based on alleged conflicts between a variety of conflicting orthodoxies (some of which may be inaccessible), and what those adults stated when they were in school.

Clearly, the situation in law is better than the situation in education in these two respects:

• The law in areas of federal jurisdiction is the same across the nation. (Contrast that with the official laws of physics, which may vary from one state to another. Of course, physics is merely an example, and we may be blessed with uniformity in the official laws of physics of today's educational authorities, but this is more a matter of luck than design.)
  
  
• The law is published and, at any given time, there is only one authorized version of federal laws.
  

[mrcheerful]

1. Because truth has a liberal bias and conservatives can't deal with truth as it

reminds them that there is a thing called reality, besides their heads would explode if they had to tell the truth.

[vim876]

2. Please.

Tell me this is satire. Please.