Department of Education

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What people don’t understand is that having everything in a bunch of difference places, makes administering and reporting on it more difficult. Not to mention it makes it easier to have less funding because the funding is now split across multiple agencies.

Which means more overhead taken out of each appropriated dollar designated to education. Musk is literally making government less efficient and more expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

It's a lack of pay and the notion that it is woman's work. It's the push from parents to go into stem fields.

No young person is thinking about so-called bureaucracy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School didn’t used to graduate illiterates

Previously, students with special needs often dropped out after failing one or two grades. Those with very significant special needs and/or very low cognitive functioning often remained at home or i
group homes and institutions.

Non sped students failed grades if they didn't do their work. We didn't have kids coming into upper ES with no schooling in numbers. Kids who did come to K without English assimilated quickly. Most were from 2 parent households.

You rarely had classrooms with wide ranging student abilities like we do today especially in places like western ffx county.

PP here. I agree with what you've said, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

And the job has gotten infinitely harder.

Classrooms today are harder to manage than ever before. Between mental health issues, limited disciplinary options, ESL, phones/social media, AI and rampant cheating, it's a total nightmare.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

Teachers are well paid in some districts,but it’s a slippery slope with parents and schoolboards being crazy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

And the job has gotten infinitely harder.

Classrooms today are harder to manage than ever before. Between mental health issues, limited disciplinary options, ESL, phones/social media, AI and rampant cheating, it's a total nightmare.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:where is this federal money goes for education? Schools are funded by property taxes or state funding. Universities are same so what does DoE pays - pell grants?

exactly by point. Why we spend so much on education and so behind on education? Something needs to be fixed. Cut stupid programs and push kids to do better in STEM fields. I have heard enough arguments that arts and diversity programs help. LOL, they don't. our education status is going down.

Clearly, you need a better education.

Lol! Sure. I am a PhD in Engineering from an A1 research school and have seen a lot of BS in academia and school system. A lot of them need to be revamped as well as Govt need to look into universities push for putting students in debt for stupid courses that have no future. You either act like a capitalist or a socialist and apparently it has titled more towards the latter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

It's a lack of pay and the notion that it is woman's work. It's the push from parents to go into stem fields.

No young person is thinking about so-called bureaucracy

Women like women's work.

I tbink "women's work" should be valued more. For women who are smart, nurturing, and kind with strong organizational skills, careers in nursing, teaching, social work, counseling, psychology etc can be a perfect fit and extremely rewarding over a lifetime.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

Partially but there is a lot more to it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

It's a lack of pay and the notion that it is woman's work. It's the push from parents to go into stem fields.

No young person is thinking about so-called bureaucracy

Women like women's work.

I tbink "women's work" should be valued more. For women who are smart, nurturing, and kind with strong organizational skills, careers in nursing, teaching, social work, counseling, psychology etc can be a perfect fit and extremely rewarding over a lifetime.

We need more than "valuing the work" we need appropriate and safe working conditions- we need better pay-we need to be respected in our jobs and our society and paid for all the "extra" hours. Stop gaslighting people in these professions-"do it for the kids" we appreciate you "going with the flow" which could mean not having basic needs met to do our jobs but trudging through the day-this goes for social workers, nurses and psychologists as well. These jobs are necessary and the people who do them are caring empathetic people stop walking all over them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Those are the teachers who need to find a different field. Good riddance.

Children deserve an education, not radical indoctrination.

Long-time educator here. I've never belonged to a union or called in sick as a protest in my life; but I can promise you that when my general age group of women retires, there will be few replacements applying. Expectations for meeting all kids' needs will be too hard for not enough pay.

Many, many young people would love to join the teaching profession, including some in my own family. It’s the bureaucracy that’s keeping them away. Agree?

No, it's the lack of pay and lack of respect.

It's a lack of pay and the notion that it is woman's work. It's the push from parents to go into stem fields.

No young person is thinking about so-called bureaucracy

Women like women's work.

I tbink "women's work" should be valued more. For women who are smart, nurturing, and kind with strong organizational skills, careers in nursing, teaching, social work, counseling, psychology etc can be a perfect fit and extremely rewarding over a lifetime.

We need more than "valuing the work" we need appropriate and safe working conditions- we need better pay-we need to be respected in our jobs and our society and paid for all the "extra" hours. Stop gaslighting people in these professions-"do it for the kids" we appreciate you "going with the flow" which could mean not having basic needs met to do our jobs but trudging through the day-this goes for social workers, nurses and psychologists as well. These jobs are necessary and the people who do them are caring empathetic people stop walking all over them.

PP here. I'm not sure why you're telling me to stop walking all over them. I'm one of them! Every woman in my family is in one of those professions. My comment valuing them more would include pay, etc that you mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Alabama receives a total of about $2.6 billion in revenue from the U.S. Department of Education for K-12 schools and colleges, according to an AL.com analysis of the most recent federal data.

No matter what happens, state leaders are encouraging schools and colleges to brace for changes.

“In the short run, I encourage all those currently supported by the Department of Education’s funding and services to prepare for disruption,” Jim Purcell, of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, told AL.com Thursday. He said he believes it’s likely that the department will be dissolved.
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That funding currently is mandated by Congress. If the Education Department closes, another agency would be in charge of distributing those funds. The Education Department also plays an important regulatory role in services for students, ranging from those with disabilities to low-income and homeless kids

https://www.al.com/educationlab/2025/03/prepare-for-disruption-alabama-leader-warns-of-department-of-education-closure.html

This is 25% of the budget in Alabama. Oh no!

[Anonymous]

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We spent THREE TIMES the MONEY than ANY other country, yet we rank at the BOTTOM.

COMPLETE FAILURE.

Garbage in is garbage out. The data you rely on is faulty. The USA mandatorily educate and test every child. That is not true for almost every other country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once teachers start calling in sick, the gop will start to walk this back.

Teacher here, who is home sick today. There is no plans for us to call in sick over this. Stop fear mongering. We had meetings at school and they said it won’t affect the budget as much as people think.

I, personally, am in favor of charter options. Public schools have done downhill in VA in the past ten years and no I am not a troll. I am a real teacher and a parent and yes, my kid has an IEP.

Truth.

Except, they don’t pay as well OR offer as good retirement. Unlike in other sectors, where government work pays less, most charter options pay less than public.

I was speaking as a parent. If you read my post, I pulled my child for private school. I still work in public school.

Why aren’t you working in a charter school.