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The Department of Education will not be missed

Ninety percent of the Department of Education was furloughed and deemed non-essential during the government shutdown (which didn’t last long enough, IMO).

I find it to be amazingly refreshing for the head of department to work so diligently to get that department shut down. They are offloading six grant programs to other departments where they are more appropriately administered. And Secretary McMahon is also actively talking to members of Congress since it will take action from them to permanently terminate it.

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15 responses to “The Department of Education will not be missed”

  1. Unferth Avatar
    Unferth

    The only thing I’ve heard positive that they do is the grant administration. However, if you look at the cost of education over time, the more the feds gave in student loans and other education subsidies, the more college costs. Universities charged more and hired additional staff that have little to nothing to do with educating the students. Want to make higher education affordable again? Get the federal government out of it.

    Whether higher education is worth it or not is the subject of a different debate (in 20/20 hindsight, I never would have sent my daughters to those indoctrination camps).

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  2. Nemo Avatar
    Nemo

    …not to mention test scores at all public education levels have declined since the agency came into being with the mandate to IMPROVE student test scores.

    These are the people, with Phd’s in edumacation no less, that decided that the old ways of teaching math and writing were outmoded and invented ways of teaching those subjects that no normal person can understand.

    The only thing that .govedu appears to be good at is sucking the taxpayer dry.

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  3. Fred Horn Avatar
    Fred Horn

    I think this “longest shutdown in govt history” will soon become second longest when the one in january starts up.

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  4. crazyeighter Avatar
    crazyeighter

    Fred, I can hardly wait for for the caterwauling.

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  5. Veeshir Avatar
    Veeshir

    But how will children learn they’re born in the wrong body and commies are good?
    Jeez, you have to think these things through.

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  6. Big Ruckus D Avatar
    Big Ruckus D

    Jimmah Carter should be disinterred, and his rotting corpse flogged, over the creation of this bureaucratic turd. The money it has wasted from the Federal budget, and the (wasted) money it has cost we the people in additional taxation, and the ever rising price of university education, should be considered a capitol offense.

    To say nothing of it’s role in facilitating insurrectionists entering the field of education en masse, in order to pervert the curriculum, and in turn the minds of innumerable children, for the sole purpose of subverting civilized society.

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  7. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    Recently watched a video of a child adding two numbers, using Common-Core methodology. Was the most painfully inefficient, slow, and clunky approach I have ever seen.

    The Department of Education presided over the greatest “dumbing down” of the system, throwing basic skills, reasoning,and critical thought out the window, while simultaneously shoveling bushels of cash at their friends in higher education, the testing companies, and the teachers unions.

    It will take decades to recover from their antics.

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  8. Bennie Sprouse Avatar
    Bennie Sprouse

    People keep pushing for Charter/Private Schools but I’m not a fan! We already HAVE PUBLIC Schools – we just need to take back CONTROL of them! Get the Teachers Unions OUT of the schools! They can negotiate pay but that’s it! RESULTS are EXPECTED! Teachers are to TEACH – not INDOCTRINATE! No SEX LIFE TALK – No POLITICS! Arrest any Teacher delving into sexual content! Might not take more than a few hundred for them to get the message!

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  9. TRoy Avatar
    TRoy

    A lot of folks seem to think spending money makes little Johnny smarter. Kids were smarter when they had the least amount of money spent on students 75-100 years ago. No amount of new swimming pools, football stadiums, or new fancy buildings make students learn. The quality of education is not directly related to expenditures in many cases. Wisdom and common sense are rare commodities that few possess, and practical skills are looked down upon by academia as low- class. Our society puts unrealistic value on all of the wrong shit.

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  10. Veeshir Avatar
    Veeshir

    TRoy, most of the money goes to administrators, not classrooms.
    12 folks in the Diversity Dept don’t come cheap.

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  11. Old NFO Avatar
    Old NFO

    Good riddance! How much will that save in salaries and selling off buildings?

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  12. Midwest Chick Avatar
    Midwest Chick

    Unferth–Yes, the rise in college costs matches what the feds (over)gave in student loans.

    Nemo–Correct. It has done more harm than good.

    Fred–Agreed.

    crazyeighter–Indeed.

    Veeshir–Ha!

    BRD–Both DoE’s came out of Carter’s administration. Neither were necessary.

    Jim–Definitely. It will take a long time to recover.

    Bennie–I disagree. The unions need to be out completely. Colleges of ‘education’ need to be closed. And teachers need to keep their personal lives out of the classrooms and actually become professionals instead of older children seeking approbation from their students.

    TRoy–Veeshir has the score on that. And more money does not equal better education.

    Veeshir–Agreed.

    NFO–Billions.

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  13. KurtP Avatar
    KurtP

    Jim @6:07

    Modern teaching theory is the idea of making it arduous and painful to learn anything. That way when they get out of school, they won’t want to learn anything new.

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  14. avraham Avatar
    avraham

    i am happy i learned math in school before department of education started making it impossible

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  15. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    KurtP,

    Sadly, I believe you are correct.

    The push for advanced degrees, and teaching to the standardized test now requires you to pay for a 4+ year education to get what you should have had before 10th grade.

    My grandfather had a better education in 6 years, than my dad did in 12 years. My dad had a better education than I did in 12. My education in 12 years was better than my kids got. We are not getting better, or smarter with each successive generation.

    Almost seems like that is the plan…

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