White House preparing executive order to abolish the Department of Education
White House preparing executive order to abolish the Education Department
"The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the department — something he cannot do without congressional approval."
It is really telling that conservatives are against education.
They are saying they are pushing an ideology and indoctrinating kids... the right is so unbelievably fucked in the brain and i honestly have no idea how to unfuck their brains on such a massive scale.
It's projection is what it is. They want the Babble and silly rituals like the Pledge (with the 50's red scare "under god" added) and a cartoonish version of history and science taught.
It is THEY who want to do the indoctrinating. Lord forbid that our schools have a proper liberal education for our kids (in every sense of the word "liberal", but these dumdums are so stupid and indoctrinated themselves that they don't even know what "liberal" even means) so that kids come out thinking for themselves and being able to think critically, be auto didactic, etc...they want their kids - and everyone else's kids - to be just as stupid and blinkered and ideologically rigid as they are.
An uneducated public is much easier to control. Especially when youtube and tiktok keep them brainwashed.
This is so terrible for so many reasons. One of which is this is the department that supports children with disabilities, including early intervention services. It is super wrong to pick on our most vulnerable members of society, simply because they cannot defend themselves. They should be ashamed (although, to be fair, I'm not sure they are capable of it).
Certainly there is no precedent with fascists doing bad things to children with disabilities, right?
It is super wrong to pick on our most vulnerable members of society
If not this, then upon what shall they base their policies?
Given that Elon used his (possible) autism as an excuse many times... ahh fuck it, I will say it.
I fully expect him to not only expect respect for his disabilities, but he also will hold it against others. Basically he will probably say it is to the best that austic kids either are exterminated or 'be exceptional like himself' if they want to live.
I do wonder if having the shit beat out of him as a kid - to the point where he was hospitalized - shaped fElon's mental state today.
I am so glad that I went hopelessly into debt and sold my body for a degree for a job they don’t want to exist anymore. Fuck me for being passionate about math and science, wanting to teach and inspire children. It’s wonderful that the lifelong PTSD from sex work ended up being worth nothing.
No, I’m a fucking removed. No removed allowed. No DOE means my state is going to end public education. They’ve already been working on it. Online charters for the poors, real education for the wealthy.
The summer before 9/11, I started a tech support job at an educational publisher. I'm still here as a Level 4 tech because it's a very stable, secure job. If the DoE is eliminated, I have no idea what happens to my job now or in the future, so I'm terrified. Most of the tech knowledge I had 24 years ago has been replaced with institutional knowledge that isn't transferable. Plus, I'm 51, which is a rough age to start looking for new tech jobs.
I'm so angry with my country that we've come to this.
To be fair you'd probably fit right into a large organization's IT department.
Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, a major labor group, warned in a statement Tuesday that Trump's coming order would hurt students and families, especially in vulnerable populations.
Team Trump: SWEET! That's the idea! They finally get it!
I fucking hate conservatives, they can all go choke on a big bag of donkey dicks.
Based on news I've seen, they'd enjoy that :/
From They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933-45:
Because the mass movement of Nazism was nonintellectual in the beginning, when it was only practice, it had to be anti-intellectual before it could be theoretical. What Mussolini’s official philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, said of Fascism could have been better said of Nazi theory: “We think with our blood.” Expertness in thinking, exemplified by the professor, by the high-school teacher, and even by the grammar-school teacher in the village, had to deny the Nazi views of history, economics, literature, art, philosophy, politics, biology, and education itself.
Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own—that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous—not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.
In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.
If they dissolve the DoE I will be stopping payment on my student loans. They won't get another cent. Everyone should do the same. What will they do? Can't jail us all and suing everyone will take centuries to process.
Oh, they won't let you do that! They'll transfer Fannie May and Freddie Mac to another department and go after people even harder.
I know it won’t happen, sadly, because nobody would let Trump dissolve the thing that holds our federal student loans.
Oh, man, so you mean THAT'S all Biden had to do? :)
They already plan to transfer them to the treasury department
Actually, that’s a good point if there’s no Department of Education, what happens to the federal student loans? Are they forgiven? Do they disappear?