Get rid of the Department of Education altogether...

[Dragonlady]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

Bullshit. Your education system started going downhill when you stopped funding it to reasonable levels, cutting education to the bone, disrespecting teachers, and trying to turn them into partisan farms to turn out good little Republican voters. That's resulted in the dumbing down of education in the USA to meet Republican costs and standards in the majority red states, which have the lowest scores in the country.

We've had Republican attempts to declare "ketchup a vegetable" in school lunch programs, so called "Christian schools" which teach Creationism instead of evolution, that the earth is 6000 years old, deny climate change, as well as discriminating against non-whites and gays, because they're private schools and all.

Republicans have politicized education in a way that hasn't happened in other countries, in the guise of giving parents "choice". This, in large part, is why the American workers score so low compared to the rest of the world. Our schools are busy preparing our children to be competitive in the 21st Century. They're getting the instruction in science, history, math and health care, to prepare them for life in the 21st Century. American kids are learning a false history, ignoring the slavery of blacks, the settling of the South-Western USA by Hispanics, the genocide of Native Americans, and other painful parts of your history which are essential to an understanding of how you got here.

My history classes included our troubled history with native peoples, the Riel Rebellion, and other dark chapters of our history which are part of who we are today. The conservative white-washing, literally, of American history is both a lie, and very dangerous one at that.

America is not and has never been a "White nation". It has been a diverse nation since the moment of its founding, and it's time for the Republican Party to stop pretending otherwise.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Republicans despise education

They would just as soon turn it over to the church

Agreed. We need to remember the Moral Majority which was neither moral nor a majority, which attempted to pack local school boards to brainwash students as young as 5 to an Intelligent Design fantasy.

Science then and science now is anathema to the Republican Party's callous conservative set, who seeks to train students at a young age that Authoritarianism, that is GOD, is forever watching them, and to question Big Brother is immoral and a sure path to hell.

 

[BS Filter]

Totally agree. The Department of Indoctrination needs to be vaporized.

 

[deanrd]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

How about if we just do that in red states. Because the rest of the world considers the schools in blue states to be the best in the world.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Republicans despise education

They would just as soon turn it over to the church

It's this type of over-the-top shit that makes a reasonable discussion impossible.



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[Staidhup]

If the current federal budget allocations for education were dispersed to the states, based on student population, makes sense. To propose just to cut all federal funding from education is a mistake. Their is no need to maintain a bloated DOE that funnels down crumbs and mandates to the states.

 

[rightwinger]

Schools do much better when they are localized...a massive education Dept ruling from afar unattached and out of touch is dangerous....

Some do
Some localized districts are shitholes

 

[BS Filter]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

How about if we just do that in red states. Because the rest of the world considers the schools in blue states to be the best in the world.

The red states know which restroom to use.

 

[rightwinger]

Republicans despise education

They would just as soon turn it over to the church

It's this type of over-the-top shit that makes a reasonable discussion impossible.



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Ummmmm....Betsy DeVos

 

[rightwinger]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

How about if we just do that in red states. Because the rest of the world considers the schools in blue states to be the best in the world.

The red states know which restroom to use.

Those schools have outhouses

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Jimmy Carter established the department of education. For that reason alone it should be abolished.

 

[BluesLegend]

When education became a cash cow for the Dem party it was all downhill from there.

 

[BS Filter]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

How about if we just do that in red states. Because the rest of the world considers the schools in blue states to be the best in the world.

The red states know which restroom to use.

Those schools have outhouses

Yeah, you leftists are really smart, huh. You don't even understand basic biology.

 

[kyzr]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

Bullshit. Your education system started going downhill when you stopped funding it to reasonable levels, cutting education to the bone, disrespecting teachers, and trying to turn them into partisan farms to turn out good little Republican voters. That's resulted in the dumbing down of education in the USA to meet Republican costs and standards in the majority red states, which have the lowest scores in the country.

We've had Republican attempts to declare "ketchup a vegetable" in school lunch programs, so called "Christian schools" which teach Creationism instead of evolution, that the earth is 6000 years old, deny climate change, as well as discriminating against non-whites and gays, because they're private schools and all.

Republicans have politicized education in a way that hasn't happened in other countries, in the guise of giving parents "choice". This, in large part, is why the American workers score so low compared to the rest of the world. Our schools are busy preparing our children to be competitive in the 21st Century. They're getting the instruction in science, history, math and health care, to prepare them for life in the 21st Century. American kids are learning a false history, ignoring the slavery of blacks, the settling of the South-Western USA by Hispanics, the genocide of Native Americans, and other painful parts of your history which are essential to an understanding of how you got here.

My history classes included our troubled history with native peoples, the Riel Rebellion, and other dark chapters of our history which are part of who we are today. The conservative white-washing, literally, of American history is both a lie, and very dangerous one at that.

America is not and has never been a "White nation". It has been a diverse nation since the moment of its founding, and it's time for the Republican Party to stop pretending otherwise.

There is no comparison between a private school education and a public school education for getting students ready for college or the work force. Vouchers are the best way to get your kids a good education. The "apology tour" of liberal educators doesn't help the kids at all. Jobs of the future require more STEM schools.
The lowdown on STEM schools | Parenting

How many High Schools can field a symphony orchestra??

 

[Wry Catcher]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

Bullshit. Your education system started going downhill when you stopped funding it to reasonable levels, cutting education to the bone, disrespecting teachers, and trying to turn them into partisan farms to turn out good little Republican voters. That's resulted in the dumbing down of education in the USA to meet Republican costs and standards in the majority red states, which have the lowest scores in the country.

We've had Republican attempts to declare "ketchup a vegetable" in school lunch programs, so called "Christian schools" which teach Creationism instead of evolution, that the earth is 6000 years old, deny climate change, as well as discriminating against non-whites and gays, because they're private schools and all.

Republicans have politicized education in a way that hasn't happened in other countries, in the guise of giving parents "choice". This, in large part, is why the American workers score so low compared to the rest of the world. Our schools are busy preparing our children to be competitive in the 21st Century. They're getting the instruction in science, history, math and health care, to prepare them for life in the 21st Century. American kids are learning a false history, ignoring the slavery of blacks, the settling of the South-Western USA by Hispanics, the genocide of Native Americans, and other painful parts of your history which are essential to an understanding of how you got here.

My history classes included our troubled history with native peoples, the Riel Rebellion, and other dark chapters of our history which are part of who we are today. The conservative white-washing, literally, of American history is both a lie, and very dangerous one at that.

America is not and has never been a "White nation". It has been a diverse nation since the moment of its founding, and it's time for the Republican Party to stop pretending otherwise.

Be prepared, you will not get away with the truth, the usual set of USMB faux Christians will not tolerate a comprehensive history of foolish claims by conservative Republicans, and the social conservative community.

The conservative Clergy still has a strong influence on politics, and their polemics will ring from every pulpit to defend an agenda maintaining their authority over their flock and the Congress.

 

[koshergrl]

Jimmy Carter established the department of education. For that reason alone it should be abolished.

Yup.

 

[my2¢]

As did the Republicans at the time I felt the department was Jimmy Carter's pay back to the teachers union for their steadfast support of the Democratic Party. For all the bitching and moaning Reagan and others did during the Carter years, the topic of the department has been rather tepid since Reagan's arrival in Washington. Personally, I see our schools as a local concern and any federal bureaucracy as wasteful. Plus today with citizens access to information over the web we're in better position to prevent/react to any educational crisis such as that which took place back in '58 (or so) due to the Soviets successful launch of Sputnik.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Republicans despise education

They would just as soon turn it over to the church

The right’s contempt for education and advocacy of ignorance comes as no surprise.

 

[koshergrl]

Created in 1978...and the minute it was created was the minute our schools started to go downhill. It is used to create a nationalized school system, for the purpose of pushing federal *programs* that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with brainwashing, and which supplant actual education.

Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

Bullshit. Your education system started going downhill when you stopped funding it to reasonable levels, cutting education to the bone, disrespecting teachers, and trying to turn them into partisan farms to turn out good little Republican voters. That's resulted in the dumbing down of education in the USA to meet Republican costs and standards in the majority red states, which have the lowest scores in the country.

We've had Republican attempts to declare "ketchup a vegetable" in school lunch programs, so called "Christian schools" which teach Creationism instead of evolution, that the earth is 6000 years old, deny climate change, as well as discriminating against non-whites and gays, because they're private schools and all.

Republicans have politicized education in a way that hasn't happened in other countries, in the guise of giving parents "choice". This, in large part, is why the American workers score so low compared to the rest of the world. Our schools are busy preparing our children to be competitive in the 21st Century. They're getting the instruction in science, history, math and health care, to prepare them for life in the 21st Century. American kids are learning a false history, ignoring the slavery of blacks, the settling of the South-Western USA by Hispanics, the genocide of Native Americans, and other painful parts of your history which are essential to an understanding of how you got here.

My history classes included our troubled history with native peoples, the Riel Rebellion, and other dark chapters of our history which are part of who we are today. The conservative white-washing, literally, of American history is both a lie, and very dangerous one at that.

America is not and has never been a "White nation". It has been a diverse nation since the moment of its founding, and it's time for the Republican Party to stop pretending otherwise.

Be prepared, you will not get away with the truth, the usual set of USMB faux Christians will not tolerate a comprehensive history of foolish claims by conservative Republicans, and the social conservative community.

The conservative Clergy still has a strong influence on politics, and their polemics will ring from every pulpit to defend an agenda maintaining their authority over their flock and the Congress.

Commie gaslighter scum.

 

[koshergrl]

Republicans despise education

They would just as soon turn it over to the church

The right’s contempt for education and advocacy of ignorance comes as no surprise.

Nobody is surprised because nobody except useful idiots fall for such tripe.
We certainly aren't surprised that brainwashed commie enemies of the USA are pushing that false narrative.