Summary

The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump's long-standing pledge.

However, Congress must approve the agency's abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.

GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.

Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.

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[–] 148 points 2 years ago (19 children)

It might be worth mentioning that Andrew Johnson signed the Department of Education into law in 1867. It was elevated to a cabinet position in 1979 by Carter from it's previous position within the Department of Health, Education, And Welfare.

The idea that the government has a constitutional interest in fostering the education of the public is NOT a new thing contrary to what conservatives would have you believe. An educated populace is an essential function of a representative democracy.

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    But I can’t figure out why. A society with severe brain drain would lead to reduced quality of life for them as well. Are they just banking on AI to do everything while everyone dies in rebellions and counter-rebellions? Shit, that’s probably it.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago

    Fascists aren’t particularly smart. They tend to lose in the long run because they just cannot comprehend anything complex. All their philosophy is wishful thinking and simple heuristics that follow their preconceived notions about the superiority of their in group.

    They want feudalism because they can’t stand anyone having power other than the people who deserve to rule. They can’t stand that non elites can vote, demand decent wages, etc. so they want feudalism without understanding the downstream effects of that.

    They are just fucking dumb. And that is why, if we get enough time, we will win against them. Climate change might get us. But we will fucking destroy these no knowing fuck wits.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I also don't understand why they're aiming for this kind of society. Eventually they'll cut so much that the actual pie will shrink, so they'll end up getting less while being surrounded by slums.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but at least a black person didn't get something they didn't.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Think of the rich as aliens. Extract all the wealth from available resources and then move on to the next country. More likely than not, they will die before any of their damage matters enough to bother them. This is why they want to drill.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    But an educated populace is anathema to the ruling class.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    In a democracy the people are the ruling class.

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    Even the moneyed elites should be wary of this since even the regimes were money is the most concentrated in the fewest of hands are proportionally far poorer when their Education systems are bad, probably because o many of the higher value adding businesses require comparativelly well educated workers and even a lot of products require well educated users (who as consumers buy those products).

    People who are illiterate, even if only functionally so, can't handle most modern devices, at work or at home.

    At least up to a point, the level of Education of the populous is the difference between being a Latin America style Economy or being an European style one.

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