Red states are fine with that. The rich, white kids go to private schools. Nobody else matters. |
Looking at how they voted, it looks that way. Lots of non-rich voters voted for it. |
There is a gross misunderstanding on this board of what the Dept of education does. |
So is the Trump plan just to repeal the IDEA etc? Because it’s the funding that gives the federal government authority to legislate here and there needs to be a federal agency to oversee all that. Is the plan to just merge remaining functions into HHS? |
Pretty much. And the good public schools in red states tend to be in high income areas that are not dependent on federal subsidies. 14 of the 25 best public high schools in America are in red states, so it's not like they've abandoned public education. They just prefer local control and the easy availability of charters and private schools. Red states will be fine with the abolition of the Dept. of Education. |
You can vote long before you have a college degree. So that argument is rather specious. The unnecessary credentialing of jobs has only watered down the bachelor's degree. Posters here seem to think only T-insert number universities matter, but Pepperidge Farms remembers when any college degree was more than a commodity for sale to the highest bidder. |
Hey now. Liberty U has a medical school. If you’re taken to an ER in VA there’s a real chance that the physician praying over you is an alumnus. (!!) |
Very true. Assume most people in power in red states don't care anyhow. |
I've had one of these idiots. Just a tip: if you go into a doctor's waiting room and they have pictures of Jesus standing behind doctors while they are working, step right back out of that waiting room. |
It’s the poor rural schools that will suffer more than they already do now. |
And in red states in the South, that means Black people. It’s unnerving to see ostensible progressives cheer this on as some sort of FAFO. |
That really is not the unnerving part of this. |
Wait, what? How are liberals to blame for red state school boards screwing over their own (low income) kids? |
The history of public schools in the south is horrible especially in those country little towns. A lot of white students already don’t go to public schools or are in really chopped up school districts. A lot of these rinky dink majority African American towns have little private Christian schools that all of the white students go to. Look up segregation academies for some context. |
According to Joe Biden, he has created many high paying jobs that do not require a college education. He is encouraging people to go into the trades. Boeing agreed to a three years contract with its machinist union that would see average pay at around $106,000 a year in three year. How many educated people are making $106,000 year? |