Trump moves to obliterate education

The U.S. Department of Education today announced it has terminated over $600 million in grants to institutions and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to train teachers and education agencies on divisive ideologies. Training materials included inappropriate and unnecessary topics such as Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); social justice activism; “anti-racism”; and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy. Additionally, many of these grants included teacher and staff recruiting strategies implicitly and explicitly based on race.

The grants are awarded to teacher preparation programs that train future classroom teachers. Examples from the grant applications included:

  • Requiring practitioners to take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities (e.g., racism) and critically reassess their own practices;
  • Receiving professional development workshops and equity training on topics such as “Building Cultural Competence,” “Dismantling Racial Bias” and “Centering Equity in the Classroom”;
  • Acknowledging and responding to systemic forms of oppression and inequity, including racism, ableism, “gender-based” discrimination, homophobia, and ageism;
  • Building historical and sociopolitical understandings of race and racism to interrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students in planning instruction relationship building discipline and assessment;
  • Providing “targeted practices in culturally relevant and responsive teaching abolitionist pedagogies and issues of diversity in classroom management”; and
  • Providing spaces for critical reflection to help educators confront biases and have transformative conversations about equity.




So now you may be asking yourself what did you get for your billions of dollars over the years ?



She's a PhD
She going to attack the wrong person and wind up on the ground bleeding . She'll be able to count herself lucky to just walk away afterwards
And she's more than welcome to come on up to Appalachiastan and give it a shot

Bill Clinton would so do her


A great start, I would say, but just a start.

Next up:

Overhaul laws that protect special needs kids WHICH LEAD to violence in schools and the disruption of the classroom. Remove those children. We need special schools back.

TRUE consequences for poor behavior. I have not seen this addressed yet but it's a much bigger problem than all of the above.
 
A great start, I would say, but just a start.

Next up:

Overhaul laws that protect special needs kids WHICH LEAD to violence in schools and the disruption of the classroom. Remove those children. We need special schools back.

TRUE consequences for poor behavior. I have not seen this addressed yet but it's a much bigger problem than all of the above.
So, as a teacher you must believe head start and early learning are worthless?
 
A great start, I would say, but just a start.

Next up:

Overhaul laws that protect special needs kids WHICH LEAD to violence in schools and the disruption of the classroom. Remove those children. We need special schools back.

TRUE consequences for poor behavior. I have not seen this addressed yet but it's a much bigger problem than all of the above.
Some special needs kids are okay in normal schools. But remove those with disabilities that lead to violent or disruptive behavior.
 
A great start, I would say, but just a start.

Next up:

Overhaul laws that protect special needs kids WHICH LEAD to violence in schools and the disruption of the classroom. Remove those children. We need special schools back.

TRUE consequences for poor behavior. I have not seen this addressed yet but it's a much bigger problem than all of the above.
Spoken like NOT a teacher.
 
Spoken like NOT a teacher.
My wife was a Special Ed teacher. She was against mainstreaming children with potentially violent problems. Some kids do well in a normal classroom, but those with serious problems disrupt the teaching of other students.
 
My wife was a Special Ed teacher. She was against mainstreaming children with potentially violent problems. Some kids do well in a normal classroom, but those with serious problems disrupt the teaching of other students.
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Does it look like DoE is doing a good job?

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Is are chidrens learnin? Not too good.
 
The U.S. Department of Education today announced it has terminated over $600 million in grants to institutions and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to train teachers and education agencies on divisive ideologies. Training materials included inappropriate and unnecessary topics such as Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); social justice activism; “anti-racism”; and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy. Additionally, many of these grants included teacher and staff recruiting strategies implicitly and explicitly based on race.

The grants are awarded to teacher preparation programs that train future classroom teachers. Examples from the grant applications included:

  • Requiring practitioners to take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities (e.g., racism) and critically reassess their own practices;
  • Receiving professional development workshops and equity training on topics such as “Building Cultural Competence,” “Dismantling Racial Bias” and “Centering Equity in the Classroom”;
  • Acknowledging and responding to systemic forms of oppression and inequity, including racism, ableism, “gender-based” discrimination, homophobia, and ageism;
  • Building historical and sociopolitical understandings of race and racism to interrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students in planning instruction relationship building discipline and assessment;
  • Providing “targeted practices in culturally relevant and responsive teaching abolitionist pedagogies and issues of diversity in classroom management”; and
  • Providing spaces for critical reflection to help educators confront biases and have transformative conversations about equity.




So now you may be asking yourself what did you get for your billions of dollars over the years ?



She's a PhD
She going to attack the wrong person and wind up on the ground bleeding . She'll be able to count herself lucky to just walk away afterwards
And she's more than welcome to come on up to Appalachiastan and give it a shot

Bill Clinton would so do her

If they were training teachers to teach real reading, writing, math, science, history, geography etc. it wouldn't be much better. That is what our universities are supposed to be teaching people who want to be teachers to do. And the states should be funding those universities instead of the federal government that is given no constitutional authority to do so.

Get the federal money out of education and I'm pretty darn sure it will become much more affordable for pretty much everybody who really wants an education.

Wouldn't it be great if the bright poor kid could again work his/her way through college?
 
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Wouldn't it be great if the bright poor kid could again work his/her way through college?

They can. They can also repay their student loans after they complete their education.
 
They can. They can also repay their student loans after they complete their education.
Even decades ago, my kids, both really bright--my daughter earned her bachelor and master's degrees with honors inside of four years--could not cover all their college costs by working for wages. We couldn't help a great deal but did help as much as we could. They both graduated college with substantial student loans that they did pay off on schedule.

My husband and I, even working for low wages, paid all our expenses in college--our parents could not or did not help at all--and had no debt when we finished our formal education. No we did not go to prestigious schools but got good education in small state universities.

I would like for people to be able to do that again.
 
Even decades ago, my kids, both really bright--my daughter earned her bachelor and master's degrees with honors inside of four years--could not cover all their college costs by working for wages. We couldn't help a great deal but did help as much as we could. They both graduated college with substantial student loans that they did pay off on schedule.
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There you go.
 
The U.S. Department of Education today announced it has terminated over $600 million in grants to institutions and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to train teachers and education agencies on divisive ideologies. Training materials included inappropriate and unnecessary topics such as Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); social justice activism; “anti-racism”; and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy. Additionally, many of these grants included teacher and staff recruiting strategies implicitly and explicitly based on race.

The grants are awarded to teacher preparation programs that train future classroom teachers. Examples from the grant applications included:

  • Requiring practitioners to take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities (e.g., racism) and critically reassess their own practices;
  • Receiving professional development workshops and equity training on topics such as “Building Cultural Competence,” “Dismantling Racial Bias” and “Centering Equity in the Classroom”;
  • Acknowledging and responding to systemic forms of oppression and inequity, including racism, ableism, “gender-based” discrimination, homophobia, and ageism;
  • Building historical and sociopolitical understandings of race and racism to interrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students in planning instruction relationship building discipline and assessment;
  • Providing “targeted practices in culturally relevant and responsive teaching abolitionist pedagogies and issues of diversity in classroom management”; and
  • Providing spaces for critical reflection to help educators confront biases and have transformative conversations about equity.




So now you may be asking yourself what did you get for your billions of dollars over the years ?



She's a PhD
She going to attack the wrong person and wind up on the ground bleeding . She'll be able to count herself lucky to just walk away afterwards
And she's more than welcome to come on up to Appalachiastan and give it a shot

Bill Clinton would so do her


It's always the ones with the big mouths that usually can't back them up. The last person I remember having both a big mouth and the ability to back it up was Muhammad Ali.
 
No a six foot three hundred pound man who used to be built like a linebacker. If someone e attacks me, I don’t fight fair, be it a man or woman.

Just so you know, this is U blaming me for being a very small woman. I guess, rather than address the problem of violence in schools, we just need a bunch of huge men to teach 5-10 year olds.

You know in my state NO ONE can touch the kids if they're in destruction mode, but surely populating an elementary school with huge dudes would help, right?
 
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