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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Déjà vu! I thought they already did that?
Ok but, education is a subsidy for corporations. It makes sure we’re educated enough to be worth hiring. Among other things, education is important in making us competitive.
Nobody should want this except for traitorous elites ready to leave the country the instant the tap runs dry. Even the most soulless neolib/conservative ought to realize education is necessary.
education is a subsidy for corporations
It’s a perquisite for domestic development of professional labor. But where those laborers work is dictated by their access to capital. Corporate monopolization of real estate and advanced machinery forces professional workers into their employment. The act of publicly provisioning education isn’t what yields subsidy. Its the caging of graduates into privately owned industries through control of physical and intellectual properties.
Nobody should want this except for traitorous elites ready to leave the country the instant the tap runs dry.
I think you’re getting out ahead of your skis.
Trump defends U-turn on Chinese student visas after Maga backlash
The White House has said that those 600,000 student visas will be issued over the next two years, in line with numbers issued in previous years.
The plan isn’t for American plutocrats to pick up and leave. It is to swing open the doors of the Guest Worker program and import millions of professionally skilled indentured servants.
“I love the uneducated.”
'Smart people don’t like me."
They need them pregnant and stupid. It’s the only way they can get votes.
A more stupid populace means a more destitute and desperate populace.
This country is about to be a much more dangerous place to be.
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.
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.
Cheers to my prof who told me last semester I was being an irate lib when I said this would be happening
My profs actively want this to happen
A magat professor? Wild how someone in charge of teaching people could also be functionally retarded.
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.
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…
It was an operating systems class. He spent half the time waxing poetically about Microsoft in the 90s and the other half calling Elon a tech genius.
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.
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.
Dismantled, yes. Rebuilt?
If you smash a vase, someone will eventually pick those pieces up. They might reassemble it into a bowl.
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. :-|
Lack of education will make America great again.
Lack of education will make America great again
Lack of education made Amerika what it is right now
It’s how you compete with China. While they waste money and effort on education, science, engineering, infrastructure and so on, you sit back with Jesus, a sense of white supremacy, a cool beer, and a truck in the front yard you’ll put wheels on next month.
Median pay in the U.S. for no high school degree is 37,492. Median 1 bedroom apartment- 1,500. At $18,000 a year before utilities they can’t get approved for a lease. So unless they are crashing at someone else’s place the beer isn’t cold, and the truck is their house and depending on what state they live in they are considered to be illegal to live in it…
So much for having a trad-wife or whatever, they’ll need a sugar mama
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.
I fucking knew they would use the length of the shutdown for something like this.
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.
Who needs edumacation anyways, Brawndo has what plants crave!
It’s got electrolytes!
So that means I don’t need to pay back my student loans, right?
Not exactly. They are selling student loans on the market the way mortgages used to be traded in the good old 2000’s.
No part of the contract I signed allows them to do that. It will be in the courts for years. Just like the public service loan forgiveness program suit that still has my loans in forbearance 3 years later.
Smart people don’t vote right
