Trump set to sign executive order closing Ed Department

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The president campaigned extensively on a promise to dismantle the department and appointed an education secretary keen to carry out the task.

People will be left unprepared for the real world, students w/disabilities would have to fend for themselves, but at least nobody will have to learn about such "blasphemies" as evolution and black history. (sarcasm)

Is this the American Exceptionalism I've heard so much about?

I'm glad I graduated when I did.

Shocker.... they were so crazy woke with all of these liberal agendas in schools like socially transitioning gender and said they didn't care at-all what any of the "backwards" parents thought about this kind of social-engineering, and the backlash effect whipped around to destroy them in less than a generation.

They should really ask themselves a question now as to why a supposedly "extreme" move that sounds extreme on-paper like destroying one's own Department of Education, that when you first hear it you'd think would only have 5% support or so, seems to have the support of maybe 45% or so or most of the Trump supporters ? What exactly have all these liberal elites been doing and been so unresponsive to any kind of criticism to set themselves up for this in the first place ?

I also remember it was back in the 2012 Presidential debates and Rick Perry called for dismantling the Department of Education, and it was considered a much more far-out position and he was far more roundly laughed at. I guess things have now deteriorated so far with the liberal agenda and all the things like the 2 year teachers' vacation thanks to the teachers' union of Covid, that things have come to this extent where something like the liberal DoE can now just get thrown on the scrapheap, as it's now seen as so blatantly only pushing this kind of agenda.

In Connecticut, a deep blue state, that will only hurt students in poor towns.
In rich Connecticut towns, residents already invest a lot in education and don't depend as much in Federal Grants.
If federal taxes are less the rich can afford to pay more local taxes for education.

Private schools may do better, as good education becomes less available to the public.

According to Connecticut law, schools must provide transgender students access to school facilities aligned with their gender identity. If a cisgender or gender-diverse student requests a private bathroom or changing area, schools can accommodate such requests.

The issue for folks on the spectrum is that services for helping the disabled have been funded through federal grants through the Department of Education and may simply go away.

Relevent section:
"If successful, Trump’s continued actions will hurt all students by sending class sizes soaring, cutting job training programs, making higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle class families, taking away special education services for students with disabilities, and gutting student civil rights protections".
So to summarise
- make higher education expensive so it's exclusively for those who are likely to be republican voters
- get rid of special ed and send people with disabilities to institutions
- Get rid of DEI so have less academics from marginalised groups teaching
- Get rid of DEI so have less students of black and hispanic background

I mean its literally the same wet dream most conservatives have been having for the last 50 years. When you give MAGA a mandate for a second term what did they expect?

The schools in the West have already increasingly been more and more like Woke Madrassas, that are pushing an ideology and a lifestyle rather than an education.... ironically like what I recall they used to mock the schools in Iraq and Afghanistan being like when they wanted to invade these countries 20 and 25 years ago, that in the schools in these countries they only sat around and rote-recited verses of the Koran all day and did literally nothing else.

At the Federal Level, most of these DoE bodies and such just set the "Woke Education" and Common Core and such like this, and put this kind of filter on for what's going to be taught. Clearly, in my opinion, the parents and regular normal people have been seeing something that's being taught and something that's going on, long-term, that they don't like, that's being inculcated..... It's like the "Gender Neutral" schools in Sweden where they fill them with rubbished plugged pre-designed comic books they are sure kids are going to read of Batman wearing a tutu doing ballet and stuff like this, so that the proper ideas get drummed in of kids mixing genders and stuff like this, so that everyone then becomes gender-fluid and proper-woke. I'm sure the same thing is going on in every Western country and in-general this is why this is getting nixed with the DoE, regardless of other damages, and education is going back to the states.... and in conservative states at least it's now just going to happily be regular education with normal topics.

Solution to undoing Trump's actions: Hint, it was done in China in the 1960s-70s, initials C.R.