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Comment on Trump Calls for Department of Education to Be ‘Closed Immediately’
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
Do conservatives still believe he isn’t actively trying to destroy the country? Or, worse, believe that a generation of uneducated Americans is somehow going to make us a better country?
I’m sincerely curious.
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf 1 week ago
I think he’s doing awesome. Closing down the dept of education isn’t going to magically and suddenly make kids ignorant. You realize that he’s not closing schools, right?
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Not magically or suddenly, but deliberately and surely. Do you really think this is about saving money? Wtf do musk and trump care about government efficiency?
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf 1 week ago
Not magically or suddenly, but deliberately and surely.
Where? Do you have a list of schools that are being shut down as a result of this?
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
I didn’t say schools were being shut down. I said that it will result in children being increasingly ignorant. Why do you think that they are shutting down the agency that regulates schools, to save chump change?
ech@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It’s almost like they were responding to the other bullshit claim you made.
And your attempt to misdirect is just pathetifc. Do you think people can’t read what you yourself wrote one comment above?
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
^ This is the level of reading comprehension we can expect even more students to have after finishing school after this
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The department of education is what distributes funding to schools and sets standards for educational guidelines. Without it, certain states can and will say “well this rural town doesn’t really need kids to go to school, they can become factory workers instead.”
Want proof? Arkansas just recently signed a law that helps increase child labor.
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf 1 week ago
Without it, certain states can and will say “well this rural town doesn’t really need kids to go to school, they can become factory workers instead.”
Any news articles that show that schools are closing because the Department of Education is being DOGE’d?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not that I expect someone like you will care about the actual details but he’s only just done it so it’s going to take time for the effects to be felt. This might go over your head but government agencies are huge and complicated entities and when you rip out the heart it takes a while for the limbs to die. The states with robust economies like California, Texas, Illinois, and New York will be fine but poor states like Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi will be seeing school closings before the end of 2025 of this isn’t stopped.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Why would there be news articles about something that hasn’t happened yet?
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 week ago
It was founded in 1980. It’s not exactly an ancient institution, the power would go back to the states.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 week ago
And no consistency means a unreliable workforce.
My company struggles with hiring people because the employment pool in the southern states can’t do math. Like no joking they had to local training on fractions so they can do their jobs. That’s embarrassing as a country.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I honestly really doubt that. Yeah, there’s dumb ssses, sure, there’s people who don’t understand fractions, absolutely, stupid people exist, but to the extent that you have a hard time finding someone who can? No, I don’t believe you.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You’re literally arguing that making those people who don’t understand those things more common won’t be bad because you can still find some who aren’t morons. As if failing to educate more people won’t be a bad thing in and out itself.
More incompetent people means less competent ones. More incompetent people means more stress on welfare programs, lower average wages (which puts stress on the stability of your social security).
At least try to think one or two steps through the consequences of your own stances…
cheers_queers@lemm.ee 1 week ago
you’re maliciously ignorant. my partner used to be a recruiter for the largest hiring corp in our area. she’s had to fire people because they couldn’t read. like, at all.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 week ago
That’s the pool in the area, its that bad. They didn’t bring in that many people from the old factory and hired local. Plus the location has such poor education that no one with kids wants to move in even though the housing is dirt cheap comparably. In fact people have been transferring out when their kids are old enough which is leading to management staffing issues. Pretty unexpected turn of events.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
history.com/…/department-education-andrew-johnson…
The department, established in 1867, faced opposition from congressmen who associated it with education for the formerly enslaved.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That’s a different iteration.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 week ago
That’s odd. Wikipedia has it at 1980. …wikipedia.org/…/United_States_Department_of_Educ…
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
We’ve all seen how red states run their education departments even when there are guidelines they have to follow. They just funnel all the public tax dollars into private schools and let the plebs wallow in idiocy.
redut_nl@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 week ago
Have no idea how accurate that comment is, but could very well be true. If DOGE does a good job (and I hope it will) - it shouldn’t only piss off the left wing bureaucrats.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
They’re not. Everything DOGE is doing has been illegal. And they’re just removing money that provides services going to US so that Elon can give himself $400million contracts for his shitty truck that falls apart.
He’s manipulating you. Stop falling for it.
ProIsh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If conservatives could read instead of being dumb as fucking bricks they’d be so angry!
Let’s see how long it takes until you dumb mother motherfuckers wake up to what you did. I don’t think it’s going to happen, plenty of people you snowflake can continue to blame. Never took responsibility for anything and you won’t start now.
As a rich white guy my heart goes out to all the people that will be hurt over this administration. And hopefully we can repair everything that will be destroyed. I have very little faith after they elected this orange piece of trash a second time.
Good fucking job