The Education Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented and unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs.
The move was described by three people informed of the plan ahead of the announcement. Two of these people said six offices within the department would be shifted elsewhere; the third person said it was at least two.
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A more stupid populace means a more destitute and desperate populace.
This country is about to be a much more dangerous place to be.
School of hard knocks is about to have a lot more graduates.
Sure this will improve the performance divide between red and blue states.
Smart people dont like Trump … by his own words.
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My profs actively want this to happen
A magat professor? Wild how someone in charge of teaching people could also be functionally retarded.
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There’s nothing wrong with community college but it sounds like you’re plenty qualified to get into a real university.
Red states are excelling in this regard. Vaulting unqualified and downright damaged/damaging right-wingers into teaching positions so they can further pollute our young. There was even a recent scandal (Texas) about having other people take their yearly assessment/qualification exams for them. And even now Texas is wholly de-funding public education in favor of private indoctrination schools. Yay. :-|
I think a lot of people still have difficulties understanding that the US will be dismantled down to the dirt. I understand. It sounds unreal to think that every single piece of this country will be eliminated and rebuilt into a country that is totally unrecognizable. People are fighting it mentally… They are denying it. Even when it happens, they make an excuse for it not being the end of the country… but if you look back in history, every civilization eventually ended.
Dismantled, yes. Rebuilt?
If you smash a vase, someone will eventually pick those pieces up. They might reassemble it into a bowl.
I agree with you. But for the rest of us that can see the shit fest of destruction coming, what’s going to happen after the next 3 years?
Is it all going to be straight 'reconstruction ’ or a chance for something new to replace?
Can we recover? This is the question that fills me with dread in bed.
Oh, no… It’s going to be rebuilt back up similar to handmaid’s tale. Total authoritarianism. If you want freedom, come back in about 200 years.
Best case scenario is the states split off, there’s a mostly cold war, and the land known as the United States is financially crippled for generations as they try to stabilize. I would recommend not being in a red state, because there will be no federal government to keep them in check.
I had a few of those. I was the reason one of them banned laptops in her class after my semester because I fact checked her so much. She would say shit like, “the CDC says that condoms are 100% ineffective.”
Luckily she couldn’t ban my laptop because it was a reasonable accommodation for my disability.
Pretty soon the title of Professor will be meaningless…
A magat professor?
Far more common than you’d initially guess, especially in big red states like Texas and Florida.
The Charlie Kirk-ification of academia has systematically removed much of the so-called Liberal Academic base and used their chairs as sinecures for conservative cronies and nepotism hires.
There do indeed exist educators who have heavy ideological biases and horrible personalities, and likewise some supposedly educated people who are into extreme ideologies either because they absolutely hate specific groups and/or because they’re in for personal profit that could happen once they’re in charge.
Most uneducated world power speedrun!
Bold of you to assume America is still going to be a world power by the end of this…
I mean, the US is already world champion on this, no other country is even close.
A healthy, broadly educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
A healthy, broadly educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
I mean, we’ve got the entire 1960s/70s turn towards Reaganism suggesting the opposite. A broadly educate population secure in its ethnic majoritarian control of private property is ripe for conservative ideological poisoning. The landlord class loves the Republicans. The high income working class loves Republicans. The Professional Managerial Class loves Republicans.
So long as Republicans are willing to operate as gatekeepers - guaranteeing White Christian Men dominate the private sector - they will continue to be a magnet for corrupt and ambitious American social climbers.
I’m genuinely curious how any of this reply negates my original post.
Educated. People. Vote. Republican. All. The. Time.
Educated Replublicans != broadly educated.
Seppo culture is fascinating.
Educated Replublicans != broadly educated.
That’s simply not true
Who needs edumacation anyways, Brawndo has what plants crave!
It’s got electrolytes!
So are they gonna be replacing those “You don’t need college” commercials with “You don’t need high school” commercials?
A number of red states have also eased restrictions on child labor, so yeah, probably. They want to bolster their workforce with uneducated kids.
Smart people don’t vote right
McMahon has argued that the recently ended government shutdown showed how unnecessary her agency is. “Students kept going to class. Teachers continued to get paid. There were no disruptions in sports seasons or bus routes,” she wrote. “The shutdown proved an argument that conservatives have been making for 45 years: The U.S. Department of Education is mostly a pass-through for funds that are best managed by the states.”
As always, the question is “States rights to do what?”. And when it comes to education, we all know the answer is abstinence, creationism and the benefits of slavery.
Federal law directs that these programs be housed in the Education Department. The Trump administration is employing a work-around, the people briefed on the matter said, whereby other government agencies would run the Education programs under a contract with the Education Department.
I’m not sure if I am relieved that they aren’t even doing the state control BS.
While I’m not trying to underestimate anything, this come off more as virtue signaling than actually fulfilling said promises?
You’re not wrong. State rights is bit of a right wing soundbite.
Time well tell.
I fucking knew they would use the length of the shutdown for something like this.
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They will have you believe the only two options are: a) Keep the DoE exactly as it is b) Shred the whole org
It’s a false dilemma. It could be overhauled instead of eliminated. The citizenry of the US has grown so foolish that some people will actually defend this as a great move!
I don’t find it as interesting that the DoE is being dismantled. I am more interested in what will replace it. In this case, I think it’ll be a bunch of hand-waving, like “states will step in”. Sure, but what about the grant monies the DoE used to provide? I guess that’ll just appear out of nowhere?
I don’t find it as interesting that the DoE is being dismantled. I am more interested in what will replace it.
Child labour to make up for any gaps left unfilled after immigrant workers are taken out of the country.
After all, we can’t home-school everyone!
“I love the uneducated.”
'Smart people don’t like me."
