Psyched! He's closing the Department of Education in Washignton DC

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Anonymous wrote:So no more special education, no more FAFSA, no more Pell Grants.

I guess the goal is to keep everyone stupid and poor.

No just re route to other agencies

Yeah, CBP for deportations.

Not how federal funding works. Gotta use it for what it’s earmarked for. But we are under a CR. So it doesn’t really matter. I’m FCPs and psyched. This is fantastic for a strong school district like us. And great for our poorer kids applying to college. Winning!

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Anonymous wrote:He's not wrong that American education is terrible. I don't know what the Dept. of Educ. has done right in years. Can anyone tell me what the plan being implemented is to ameliorate the terrible effects of school closures on education?

Well, you see, there is a concept of a plan.

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So blue states aren't going to be subsidizing education in poor red states anymore? Okay. I guess that's what's happening.

To keep the Republican voter pipeline of morons

Have they thought about what jobs the huge class of undereducated are going to qualify for in twenty years? Jobs are becoming more technical or eliminated and filled by machines. There will be more and more angry, poor incels. What’s in it for the 1%?

They're not thinking about it because that doesn't make them money. That's what in it for the 1% >> more money. The peasants will live in slums and the gentry in castles, just like in the past. Or, look at Brazil.

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Anonymous wrote:Special Ed is gone. That’s funded by the federal government.

Which sucks, because my son has an IEP and he gets services 4 days/week. He’s mainstreamed and those services have been critical to his development.

But if you are in a blue state, they will remain. Probably enhanced because your state isn’t also carrying a taker state.

Of you are in a red state—- well, FAFO, I guess.

IDEA would still be federal law. They would still have some form of plan but without the Office of Civil Rights (protector of rights and IEPs for special education in the DOE) these plans may become harder to enforce.

IDEA is already not enforced.

Give the enforcement to DOJ. Specifically the Civil Division. They would do a much better job than the DOE Office of Civil Rights.

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You all act like we didn’t have schools prior to the department of Ed’s creation in 1970s. Since its implementation, billions spent and objectively worse educational outcomes across the board.

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Anonymous wrote:He's not wrong that American education is terrible. I don't know what the Dept. of Educ. has done right in years. Can anyone tell me what the plan being implemented is to ameliorate the terrible effects of school closures on education?

Well, you see, there is a concept of a plan.

Biden had no intention of addressing this and neither did Kamala.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we will very soon learn that the only thing needed for education is a good teacher, chalk and a black board. Our education system isn't failing because it's not well funded enough. It's failing because these kids have way too many corporate backed distractions.

No, it's failing because 50% of a class has an ADHD or autism diagnosis with accommodations that require many resources and the other 50% are ESOL kids with parents at home who don't care if their kids learn English as long as they are in school and not needing daycare for 8 hours a day.

If I still had kids at home, there's no way I'd allow them in public school. The minority of kids, those kids without accommodations, are severely disadvantaged and cannot fairly compete with the kids with accommodations, like extra test time.

Exactly. They should be graded separately because they have accommodations. The existence of a 540 or IEP is an acknowledgement that they are not the same as other students, and there's been no study to decide how much extra time or which tool is considered "fair."

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a former Virginian and live in Lenexa, KS - a “red” state. Trust me, we’ll do just fine if we eliminated all payments to DC to get back back funding, but with certain strings attached.

This really shouldn’t even be a political thing. My great grandmother was educated in a log cabin with a slate and chalk tablet and sharing books. She read and studied insatiably and was very well educated.

SO the red states that take more can stop that. You only get Federal tax dollars for your state that come from your own state residents. Let's try that for a decade and see how most red states are doing (Hint: most of the money comes disproportionately from the Blue states--but let's allow them to keep their own money, that's what you seem to want)

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So when the red states fall even further behind, they'll only have themselves to blame. I'm actually ok with this. Vote for a clown, get a circus.

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Can they also order colleges to do away with the URM 1st gen bs while they are at it?

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Anonymous wrote:Can they also order colleges to do away with the URM 1st gen bs while they are at it?

They already have…

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Have they thought about what jobs the huge class of undereducated are going to qualify for in twenty years? Jobs are becoming more technical or eliminated and filled by machines. There will be more and more angry, poor incels. What’s in it for the 1%?

You know all those future movies where the conditions are dystopian? That is what they want. The billionares are insulated from the masses and anyone who can get a job is just chattle, to be used up, spit out and replaced.

But this is what the country voted for, so, we live with it, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I think we will very soon learn that the only thing needed for education is a good teacher, chalk and a black board. Our education system isn't failing because it's not well funded enough. It's failing because these kids have way too many corporate backed distractions.

No, it's failing because 50% of a class has an ADHD or autism diagnosis with accommodations that require many resources and the other 50% are ESOL kids with parents at home who don't care if their kids learn English as long as they are in school and not needing daycare for 8 hours a day.

If I still had kids at home, there's no way I'd allow them in public school. The minority of kids, those kids without accommodations, are severely disadvantaged and cannot fairly compete with the kids with accommodations, like extra test time.

Exactly. They should be graded separately because they have accommodations. The existence of a 540 or IEP is an acknowledgement that they are not the same as other students, and there's been no study to decide how much extra time or which tool is considered "fair."

I feel like they are going to leave special Ed alone. The IEP moms would lose their minds.

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So blue states aren't going to be subsidizing education in poor red states anymore? Okay. I guess that's what's happening.

To keep the Republican voter pipeline of morons

Entire high schools in heavily democratic areas can’t read.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we will very soon learn that the only thing needed for education is a good teacher, chalk and a black board. Our education system isn't failing because it's not well funded enough. It's failing because these kids have way too many corporate backed distractions.

No, it's failing because 50% of a class has an ADHD or autism diagnosis with accommodations that require many resources and the other 50% are ESOL kids with parents at home who don't care if their kids learn English as long as they are in school and not needing daycare for 8 hours a day.

If I still had kids at home, there's no way I'd allow them in public school. The minority of kids, those kids without accommodations, are severely disadvantaged and cannot fairly compete with the kids with accommodations, like extra test time.

Exactly. They should be graded separately because they have accommodations. The existence of a 540 or IEP is an acknowledgement that they are not the same as other students, and there's been no study to decide how much extra time or which tool is considered "fair."

I feel like they are going to leave special Ed alone. The IEP moms would lose their minds.

Unfortunately, it sounds like "their children, our choice."