What Happens If Trump Dismantles The Department Of Education?

[@nighle160]

As a former teacher, schools force teachers to pass students who did not do schoolwork to improve graduation rates. Fix that.

[@superfluous5162]

So you want no black children to graduate.

[@1one1won]

Sounds like cps

[@martitasiete7]

I think standardized testing should exist …,

[@henryairconcepts2999]

American kids will have zoom classroom with Indian teachers from New Delhi 😂

[@ronnie2699]

Sad but true

[@binkbaf]

Spelling dangerous and pronouncing it "dang ger row.* Funny clip from a few yrs back.

[@axnyslie]

Teachers? No it will be celebrity hosted corporate sponsored videos "Pepsi presents addition and subtraction"

[@rl8571]

Good. Maybe we can hire our own kids in tech and healthcare now that our kids will learn from the best and brightest teachers in the world.

[@AndrewBerube41]

They would probably learn more

[@metamuse42]

This will definitely bring the price of eggs down, right?

[@WTF-204]

Only the white eggs.

[@kinofjackson5636]

What about large brown eggs?

[@WTF-204]

@@kinofjackson5636 , they're for export only.

[@jakoblarson4597]

Says the people who didn’t care about the price of eggs the last 2 years. Now you lose the election and suddenly all you democrats now care about grocery prices

[@buntychea2616]

If the eggs came from ovaries then you might be arrested depending which state you're from.

[@Networkprofessor]

I am a product of the Pell Grant - barely making it. Without the grants and with all the gang recruitments in my childhood neighborhood, I could have easily ended up in prison and wearing an orange jumpsuit all day. no joke.

[@chiquita683]

Wrong avatar, bot

[@joespowerlifting1631]

What the rice gang 😂

[@lukemadasz1186]

If someone had not given me someone else's money, I would commit crime. Yikes. Extortion?

[@brandonsanchezrojas]

Cap

[@larryboles5064]

I grew up in the poor south and had a single parent. I also got Pell Grants and between it and scholarships I wouldn't have made my way out of Community College. Now I'm making six figures. The system worked for me and I guarantee I'm providing more back in the form of taxes and whatnot than I would have otherwise.

[@DanielQin-f2h]

Whether or not the Department of Education might be debatable, but what's certain is the rise of a super power always starts with education, and the fall of one leads with the diminishing of education.

[@v.a.993]

Agreed.

[@jeffwright9762]

Regardless of what you think of the Department of Education, the US is far from its heights of power already.

[@dutchalwayshasaplan4956]

@@jeffwright9762 and it’s sad because we had so much potential and I hope we can get it back and keep making America great because America was supposed to always go upwards and the whole “Make America Great Again” is false. I’d say Make America Greater. If America stayed to its ideals it claims and actually fixed itself and helped the world I’d love to see if we could bring about world peace with a more enlightened and wise society that broke the cycle of Human nature and history.

[@shaykika]

Education is also a national security issue.

[@Teolulz]

this department exists to steal money from hard working families and give it to the lazy families.

[@khaledbejdoughJiuJitsu]

America Is divided, only two classes rich, poor. University today Is for the rich. University Is too expensive.

[@genz214]

That’s false

[@alexl0890]

Community college is not expensive.

[@Cntr-Cmd-Delete]

The only reason i’m in college is pell grants. Even then i can barely afford to live and pay rent. A lot of these “merit” based” scholarships go directly into the kids who don’t even need it.

[@Rod-bp8ow]

Classes are Trial Balanced, Taxes based, registrations updated, continuously maintained

[@Metin-w6s]

No only america bro, the whole world is in same situation.

[@chiehlilee9224]

What future? Honestly, nothing points to a failed education system more poignantly than a Trump 2nd term.

[@amberspark9434]

I mean yeah, why do you think they want to get rid of it?

[@MapleTreeatdawn]

Over time people won’t go to college. You can be coy and claim this is the greatest thing since sliced bread- it’s not. I will point out an obvious profession that requires college…. The medical profession. We are already hurting for medical professionals. Short term people turn to the trades, but as these professions are flooded, income potential decreases. Incomes across America will be in the decline. This is incredibly short sited.

[@dustinhiggins4752]

Even engineers and lawyers need schooling, plus scientists, teachers, etc... plenty of markets being hit hard with the lack of candidates.

[@MapleTreeatdawn]

@ I understand, but those that call for the end of the DOE don’t. Soil scientists, agricultural engineers, veterinarian (they don’t just treat cats and dogs they care for our food supply)- one can go on and on the need for an educated population. Instead of giving tax breaks we should help ease the burden of education of all kinds. Strengthen our country as a whole, not give handouts to the wealthy. We voted for what is about to befall this country.

[@BeatingUpBadFinances]

It is called H1-B visas per Trump and Republicans. They will outsource all of our professions for cheaper labor. This is not my viewpoint, but at this point, I wouldn't be surprised.

[@jonanddy]

The number of people going to college is already on the decline and even then those who graduate have to face *years* paying off student loans. The president even had to step in and provide a student loan forgiveness plan because of how bad it was. Education will still exist and people will still have the opportunity to go to school, it’s really not going to be as bad as you make it seem, but I understand your logic

[@CyborgZeta]

There's not nearly enough people going for STEM degrees in college as it is. College is incredibly expensive, and admissions are heavily skewed towards women right now. Personally, I'd be interested to know why less and less young men are going to college.

[@NotACat2237]

They don't want an even playing field. And by they I mean rich people. They don't want the poor people to have the same education as them, so that they always have an edge over the poor people. Period.

[@genz214]

The rich want their kids to go to school and take over their business and tell the poor that school is not needed for them.

[@GeorgiaMade404]

False! Everyone should pay their own way. You want a better education, pay for it yourself! Period! Lol

[@NotACat2237]

@GeorgiaMade404 Of course the rich do it all on their own! Pull yourself up by the 1 million dollar boot straps that Daddy gave you.

[@1dgram]

​@@NotACat2237and the government subsidies for daddy's big business since he can afford lobbyists and contributions to super PACs

[@GT-hk8dy]

@@GeorgiaMade404 such a dumb take. We don't want our children to be as dumb as you

[@xzmrquanzx]

It will be more important to live in an area with good schools soon. The area with bad grades will stay that way forever. The poor will stay poor.

[@gilbertoflores7397]

You do know how most schools get funded right? By local property taxes, so the richer area with more valuable homes have more money to fund their local schools. It's not as simple as living in the right district, it's that rich people will keep out "minority".

[@xzmrquanzx]

@ thats exactly right. It will be more important to buy expensive homes more than ever.

[@billybarnett2846]

You can't be talking about make America great again while ruining the educational system. All the problems we're having is due to poor education for the past 30 years. Military, police, fire department, etc.

[@awilmymartinez3707]

You said it yourself “all the problems we were having is due to poor education” so why would you want to keep funding the department that responsible for that, use common sense

[@edheldude]

So the education ruined but it's now getting ruined-er?

[@cyclopentadiol2923]

@@awilmymartinez3707 And yet you don't have a solution? Or is that just common sense too?

[@billybarnett2846]

@@awilmymartinez3707 department of education actually does very little. They should be doing more like setting grading standards and certain requirements like learning to write cursive or being able to do basic math

[@XxXenosxX]

We are heading towards idiocracy

[@lauren6509]

We really are. Nobody is sounding the alarm fast enough.

[@cetujavu3466]

We are already in idiocracy.. lol it's called. DEI... Gen Z...😂😂😂

[@JaredBrown_hkuspgtr]

We are already wearing the crocks..

[@albert2524]

​@@cetujavu3466show me a recipe for blueberry pie

[@user-nn7uk1wn3n]

Cheap labor

[@DianeHoang-ul4yk]

I hope people know that states and federal have been reducing education funding for years. In my time as I graduated high school, the whole district did a major cut in spending. Public colleges are struggling with budgeting as state cuts back funding for the year. Its kinda dumb that we say our education system is bad, and our kids are stupid when we keep defunding it. I guess if you want to just worry about your family and nobody else, make sure they go to private school and get private tutors to offset the issue.

[@martitasiete7]

Grew up on the in the public school system … everything was based on standardized testing…. Lived in the poorer side of town… kids were going to their countries for 2 months during the holidays… yea all fun classes were taken out… just to put a so called AP classes that in the end didn’t count as credit for college which I than had to pay for out of pocket. Because it FASFA uses my parents money and if they had assets who had no interest in paying because there goal was to save up for retirement. Yea if more ppl get the government assistance to pay for things than the facility will charge higher because they know that the majority is getting assistance but the ones who don’t get it, can’t afford it

[@larryboles5064]

I see a lot of philosophical opposition to the Department of Education, but no attempts to try to explain what sort of structures to put in place of it. And if they do kick things to the states, then let's not use any federal money to pay for state programs. Let the poor states figure it out on their own, by their own. It'll be a catastrophe, but perhaps we need to show how bad the idea is to have people pull their heads out of the ground and stop advocating for it.

[@xkaiokenx10]

Unfortunately that seems to be the only way

[@alexmiller8644]

Agreed

[@cyclopentadiol2923]

This 100%

[@isaacvitela5131]

So what has the department done that got to this mess in the first place? Critical race theory? Nah bro, what happened to chemistry and biology?

[@isaacvitela5131]

The department is at fault here and the cat is out of the bag.

[@AndogaSpock]

They will have to bring in more people on h1b 😂

[@DiamondFlame45]

So much for America first right?

[@chiquita683]

I thought you all were happy to have immigrants, racist now?

[@chiquita683]

​@@DiamondFlame45guess you forgot, "they dont send their best". H1B lets us determine who is qualified to enter

[@DiamondFlame45]

@@chiquita683 The Republicans want more H1B visas to appease their donors? So much for America first 😂

[@garyoakham9723]

@@chiquita683you’re fine with not allowing Americans an education? No wonder trump loves your type

[@Sat-Man-Alpha]

The richtest and most free country ever ? What a bad joke and shame that you have to pay for education …🇩🇪

[@NightSide1349]

I agree with you, I also can’t believe that it’s even a discussion in the first place.

[@armenstaubach9276]

Yeah, like in Germany you could educate people with the free system.

[@NewsStuff-y5o]

America is against socialism of any sort. Its a mindset of each person pulls his or her own weight. You can apply it to health care and gun control as well . America is just different in that way compared to other industrialized nations. Whether its right or wrong is a matter of opinion.

[@Redosnda]

@@NewsStuff-y5oAmerica used to love social programs until the 1969s when black people could apply for them then they were bad and in the 89s Americans let Ronald Reagan vilify social programs and and education because why would we want the poor to be educated and now we have all these uneducated people running around who know nothing and think they do

[@armygonzloner]

Okay German, tell them the tier system used in Germany. Better yet, send a link for the book once you pass High School. The one that says what jobs you are aloud and not aloud to do based off your test scores all your years.

[@axnyslie]

Every headline regarding his plans reads like a Jeopardy category "Things a 6 year-old would say if they were elected President"

[@Simon45-v9t]

One idea, instead of dismantling education, to save a little bit of money (in the short-term), Musk and Trump could just pay their taxes. xD

[@edheldude]

They did. Musk was the biggest single tax payer in US history.

[@GrabASpriteB]

Being a native and resident of Alabama, which in many places has failing schools, I can attest that giving the state full control of the education system is a disastrous idea. Many conservatives would prefer children go to for-profit private schools (which do NOT promise better education) than improving our under-funded and inadequately funded public school system. They want to create a system where wealthy, primarily white children are able to attend good schools while the poor attend separate, worse schools. A federal administration to standardize schools and protect childrens' rights is so incredibly important. Does the DOE need revising? Possibly. Does power need to be "sent back to the states?" Absolutely not.

[@anthony.spencer]

“eliminate the department of education” okay… then what? what are the positives? what are the negatives? what is your goal in doing this? what will you do if this backfires? things trump or his supporters never think about.

[@fatherof4kids]

We are paying for useless degrees for people to work at Walmart or Starbucks. We need to not just hand out loans to anyone and any degree. Plus college is getting way too expensive.

[@cutieerica]

I am glad I had the opportunity to get a Loan for my education and pay it off in full. I am grateful for my college degrees and the advancements they have provided me and my family. Now I will admit, I had to work hard with my college degrees, but it did help me become a better person and do my part for society. I feel bad for any one who went to college and didn't get the payoff of college degrees. ❤ You're right, they are pretty costly.

[@RedWhiteNBlade]

This is so refreshing

[@amberspark9434]

I do actually agree to some degree, but I do feel like we should still have opportunities for people in low income families to become doctors, teachers, and scientists, especially because we have a massive shortage of the former two. Unfortunately college has gotten so expensive that nobody can afford it without aid of some kind

[@prettystreetchic]

What loans are you handing out?

[@TomyPesantes]

One thing to understand about IDEA is that without heavy enforcement this bodes badly for many suburban kids as well as urban children because these suburban school districts tend to underfund their Special Education departments and then ship these kids off to charter schools for kids with disabilities, all in an effort to make their test scores appear higher and "costing less" than urban schools. Like a Spanish saying says: "All that shines bright, isn't gold"

[@lynne4948]

Glad someone realizes this!!

[@112moch]

​@@lynne4948that's what will happen. Administrators will try to find ways to leave students somewhere else to not affect them with scores.

[@natejones8508]

We are so cooked when it comes to our public education. right wingers are talking about abolishing the department of Ed, but also at the same time they compare out ranking in the world and why its so bad compared to China, Japan, and Korea. It's like HELLLLO people. how do you think they have gotten such good outcomes in their country? by having a huge nation wide policy that prioritizes education, and a certain type of education. Also, everyone that is so certain they can home school their kids, are often the absolute WORST equipped to do so... it's so friggin funny, but also scary as hell at the same time. Fast forward about 15 years and we will see how friggin cooked and far behind we have fallen.

[@aar0n709]

Those countries spend less than us though. We spend more and get less.

[@dustinhiggins4752]

​@@aar0n709Because American schools are so dysfunctional it's not even funny. Everything is about money in America as well.

[@awilmymartinez3707]

You said it yourself we are cooked when it comes to our public education so why keep giving funding to a department that got us here in the first place, the most logical action should be doing something different and the liberals are the ones that had ruin the education system with their brainwashing ideology

[@edheldude]

It's not the gov policy but the culture. Look at the results between e.g. ethnic groups in the US.

[@cyclopentadiol2923]

I fortunately live by the mantra #NoKids

[@imaniblack]

I don’t know the full details but when I was in school, they said we were falling behind and especially falling behind China. I can only imagine how much worse it’s gotten and how much worse things will get abolishing this department.

[@amberspark9434]

The amount of people arguing about wether we should abolish the Dept of Education due to poor education standards after watching a video that expressly said they’re mostly for enforcing laws and providing funding for state education programs is astounding. It’s like arguing over whether we should abolished the federal reserve because taxes are too high.

[@buntychea2616]

The U.S. education system has been vital to maintaining our competitive edge in the global technology sector, driving innovation and growth. However, declining public support for higher education raises concerns, as countries like China and India heavily invest in STEM fields, producing skilled graduates ready to lead. Without renewed focus on education, the U.S. risks losing its position as a global leader in technology and innovation within the next decade. If you support this administration's proposals, do not be surprised when we are no longer the #1 economy.

[@TheViettan28]

I wonder if DoEdu funds that? MOst of the funding for research in higher edu is from agencies like DoD, DoE, NIH, and DARPA...

[@buntychea2616]

@@TheViettan28 Higher education is considered anything above the HS level. So yes, DoED does "help". But yes, most funding for research at the graduate level is funded by private and public organizations.

[@TheAvtrey]

So I was at my local book burning when Karen told me the genius idea of dismantling the Dept of education. This will make America smart again!

[@chiquita683]

Its clear you dont read if you think the Department of Education has helped improve education rankings across the country

[@DiamondFlame45]

@@chiquita683So how is the education going to improve if the federal system that provides some standardization is going to be dismantled? How are you going to attract even teachers if they are villified and no longer have the incentive of student loan forgiveness. You think AI is going to teach and babysit your kids?

[@TheAvtrey]

They don't. That's what teachers do. This department is just a socialist agenda to indoctrinate our kids.

[@TheAvtrey]

@chiquita683 Children should be shackled in college debt to the free market, unassisted by the federal government.

[@marymarr3]

@@TheAvtrey How much censorship was unleashed during COVID? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🫨🥒

[@bizonebusiness]

American students are lagging behind; unfortunately, regardless of whether you abolish the department or not, metrics indicate that scores in math and science are low compared to Asian countries (below average in math especially). Needs to be a renewed focus on practical skills such as financial literacy. Abolishing the department would be 'shifting the chairs on the Titanic' without structural reform and a renewed focus from the bottom up.

[@DiamondFlame45]

First of all, will the states even do though? Especially the states where they already have low spending on public education? If education is underperforming, how are you going to attract those to teach? You can’t vilify them and expect them to teach? I hope parents can afford homeschooling because I expect more people to leave the profession and rightly so

[@Kaodusanya]

or interestingly Nigerian immigrants who have a high education rate.

[@garyoakham9723]

American students are lagging because of a broken family. Ever since female empowerment society has collapsed. You can’t fix education without fixing women

[@maximus7079]

It's more like dropping the life boats with no one in them. Would the life boats stop the boat from sinking? No. But to act as though having life boats or no life boats is "shifting the chairs" is ridiculous. Although the department of education has not resulted in the desired goal, scores being low is not regardless of it. Things could get much much worse.

[@TomyPesantes]

Thing is teaching math should be something that needs to be done more slowly, I can't count how many times we had to move onto different units before anyone got grasp of the first units, it's important to ensure this yet since common core requirements require that everything be covered in a certain amount of time that's an issue, it isn't an issue of federal oversight necessarily, but more to do with the lack of flexibility that is given which could be fixed with some proper tweaking.

[@madinkan]

We deserve everything coming our way. That is what we voted for.

[@chiquita683]

Make America Great Again 🥳

[@lt3074]

I didn't vote for trump

[@lt3074]

@chiquita683 It was never great

[@Hexaroot785]

our education system has always been bad

[@マイニチ-t4b]

51% of the people voted for the President, including many who are poor. This is what they wanted.

[@chenoweezi]

I lived in 4 different countries, 2 3rd world or so called 3rd world 2 1st world by any stretch of the imagination and the US is by far the worst in its current state(for education that is) and that goes for both private and public. I urge all US citizens to visit countries in Asia and the Pacifics, Africa and some parts of Europe to understand what is out there.

[@yarosperdp962]

Leaving education to the private sector it's not going to en well,private schools only focus on profits and not providing a good education

[@bjorktaylor]

Better than staying with the stagnant DOE. Give parents the choice to send their children to private schools

[@PineTreesRock]

What an L take. Parents have always been able to send their kids to private schools. It has always been about money. Privatizing education will only make this problem worse.

[@genz214]

@@bjorktaylor All private schools won’t accept most students

[@bjorktaylor]

@@genz214 i meant charter sorry

[@drdumbo9124]

@@bjorktaylor Parents are often too dumb to even know what the right choice is. Hence to why we are in this situation. It's official half of Americans are complete morons.

[@applejuicejunkie316]

More Trump supporters because everyone will be dumb

[@chiquita683]

Democrats: How did people breathe before the government existed? 🤔

[@marymarr3]

@@applejuicejunkie316 This, from someone who couldn't write a complete sentence in English... 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@isaacvitela5131]

And yet what benefit does critical race theory bring?

[@1one1won]

More democrats are illiterate! 80% of Democrats are controlled by 20% of rich and powerful... so 🥴😓

[@mrmacho41]

This education system has been failing us for a while now. I'm more concerned with the way we are taught in schools.

[@heaveniswhereimgoing8774]

Exactly 💯 💯 💯 it's all crap of what they teach children or should I say they just keep passing them with bad grades. School is not the same anymore besides what they learn in school has nothing to do with the real world also so much fights and drug infested bullies I could keep going on on top of that they teach them false history because they don't want thinkers they want workers for the rest of our lives 😔 we are living in end times stayed prayed up 🙏 California is on fire 🥺

[@Littlepunk8964]

Whatever students learn in class are unlearned, forgotten as soon as they start watching tiktok

[@kingofrivia1248]

Im going to go against the curve here. The department of education has messed up for decades now. Tearing it down completely and building something new might be a good idea.

[@jasonrabeiro2009]

Cool, so point to me that "something new" that the Trump administration is proposing on building, then we'll do a cost-benefit and pros-cons analysis of it vs the DoE. Go ahead, find out what that "something new" is for us.

[@tyreefha7862]

I hate that we want BILLIONAIRES to make decisions for us... Good job America.

[@edward_lee]

This is new??

[@chiquita683]

You didnt care when it was Soros Black Lives Matter or ESG/DEI created by the World Economic Forum

[@marymarr3]

@@tyreefha7862 Since when was it different? 🤡🤡🤡

[@tyreefha7862]

@@marymarr3 who said it was new or different?🤡🤡🤡. Read it again

[@mrnoedahl]

Yes I would rather have the homeless make decisions for America. Let me guess, you went to publik schools.

[@titolovely8237]

im doing very well financially, and it's because of the pell grant system. college was unaffordable for me unless i wanted to go deep into debt. the pell grant got me a technical degree for almost no money from me and within 4 years i was earning 6 figures with a stable job and a great career path. i work to produce the chemicals we use everyday. im your average american who is working on achieving the american dream. im the person we keep saying we want everyone to become. im the guy who got a shot at the american dream because of these programs, and achieved it! we cant keep kicking the ladder out from underneath us after we got ours. the billionaire oligarchs have got to be checked.

[@aar0n709]

Why should we care? Too many people headed to college now.

[@Wolf_90702]

​@@aar0n709college enrollment among men has dropped. Women make up more than half of all enrollment in colleges and universities today because women are statistically smarter than men.

[@ThomasFromTN]

Dismantling The Department of Education will represent exponential furtherance of return to an era of cultural and racial segregation. Invoking an axiom inspired in a different context...The Department of Education is the worst example of bureaucratic enterprise...except for all its alternatives.

[@mattmatt7998]

I filled a complaint. So yes, this is important. Because fairness does matter !

[@yycflames]

this increases the GOP voting base; it's all about staying in power

[@drdumbo9124]

The dumber the society gets the more GOP voters!

[@Peter-om1zj]

wow, surprised to see a CNBC video with some journalistic integrity, it was a good watch, thanks !! Also 100+ points for leaving the comments open. A bit too much on Project 2025 and not enough explaining what a failure the DoE has been, but informative and balanced - well balanced in terms of what we're used to.

[@chas3btha1]

Good luck poorer southern states

[@Lolibett]

Inability of this country to educate its children and rely on imported brain power is brutal !

[@anthony.spencer]

so will the cost of college go down? probably not. it will most likely double within the next 5-10 years while grants and scholarship money vanishes

[@112moch]

The less people attend, thr more expensive will be to teach just couple hundreds. Colleges are facing a problem of lower count of students due to low numbers of births in the country.

[@Sondan1988]

How is it that we didn't have a Department of Education for over 200+ years of our country's history but we needed it in 1979 ? The size of Government, no matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat, only keeps GROWING and that is the last thing our Founding Fathers intended.

[@wesleysmithiv7487]

Glad I’m finishing my education this year😂 got a bachelor and associate degree for free! I can afford my masters classes lol

[@djelliott3158]

If Trump dismantled it want the next President just reinstate the Dept of Education.

[@andrenick5086]

As a former teacher many of hated DOE, they push curriculums from their offices and DC without setting foot into our classrooms. We’re paying more money per student than ever before and getting worse outcomes. Hoping it gets a major reduction in size

[@TinLeadHammer]

For a former teacher your writing contains too many mistakes.

[@franciscobuenrostro3891]

@@TinLeadHammerit’s a KZbin comment not a thesis. I agree with andrenick

[@DonaldMains]

We need to improve education in the US and the Dept of Education does absolutely nothing to promote education. The department can go and no one would notice.

[@jasonbohanon9205]

Sue the U.S. government for discriminating on people disabled

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

14:51 How are we going to get people to become firefighters and police officers if we aren’t willing to forgive their student debt? WHY DO FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS NEED TO HAVE STUDENT DEBT IN THE FIRST PLACE? Part of the problem in this country is that we waste resources educating people to do jobs that require either no or only specialized higher education. California recently started a pilot program offering four-year degrees through community colleges. The two schools in my area started offering bachelors degrees in Dental Hygiene and Automotive Repair.

[@awilmymartinez3707]

Idk if you know but loans are not free

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@awilmymartinez3707 If you don't go to college because you are doing a job that doesn't require it, they are.

[@SidSimple-j4s]

Riddle me this. Has the Department of Education done such a great job for balancing inequality? Some of the Ad Hominem is grotesque as part of a the debate.

[@ericdavidson9974]

Wasn’t Common Core the product of the department of education? That stuff really screwed over a lot of kids, including myself. The department may not need to be abolished, but it should definitely be reformed. Also, they need to stop passing kids who fail.

[@y_e_i8213]

I am a Public Administration graduate student and our first topic this semester was the the defunding of the department of education. It's not good and anyone that thinks it is good is very likely uneducated with a pea brain. Argue with your mother because I stand on my opinion.

[@andresd3104]

Well, if your job and income depends on it, of course you are going to be against dismantling it, you have every incentive to preserve the status quo. Your opinion is biased.

[@BrillianceAutoSpa]

I'm already not taking your opinion seriously if you're going to disrespect anyone with an opposing view without even having spoken to them. You sound exactly like the left sounds who aren't willing to have a conversation or even care about hearing an opinion that opposes your view. 😅 Bro, open your mind.

[@Crusader1984]

You are a fool you’re just trying to defend the status quo. You are part of the problem.

[@vsznry]

@@BrillianceAutoSpa "open your mind" says peeps who voted in christian nationalists lolol

[@linusmlgtips2123]

​@@lucasjenkinson"academia" and "emotion" actually don't go together. The well-educated literally by definition, educated. You are not.

[@C_ch_real]

It can’t be dismantled FAST ENOUGH!!

[@MayTheOddsBeInYourFavor]

In another comment you mention the level of illiteracy in the country…so your fix for this is to abolish the branch of government in charge of the education system?

[@Fullmetalseagul]

President Elon is always whining about low birth rates are but dismantling everything good this country has to offer does not make me want to have children here.

[@edheldude]

How is dept of ed good? Charter schools get better results for a fraction of the money.

[@Fullmetalseagul]

​​@@edheldude Personally speaking, the Dept of Ed was immensely helpful in aiding me to afford college with pell grants. I was the first in my family to attend college thanks to them, and I got a well paying job out of it. I can't think of a single positive testimony regarding charter schools so I have no idea if you're being sarcastic or not.

[@bru512]

The Province in Canada look after education Federal regulation is not required

[@rklein]

If the department of education gets dismantled, nobody will notice.

[@fatherof4kids]

Since the federal government took over education it has gotten worse not better. Give it back to the states and see if they can do a better job. We have the worst education system in any first world country.

[@user-fb6hy2eh5y]

Dept of education is a racket. Transferring tax dollars to underfunded state educations.

[@saulgoodman2018]

It is not going away. Not everything Trump say's will happen.

[@sasalif6573]

From when the USA has become so insufficient. I am just like, look at health Care, military, education, housing . Too much government is a bad government.

[@lynne4948]

It will be a sad day in America if it becomes a reality…

[@tonypuga2502]

Well, he did say he likes the poorly educated who are more willing to vote Republican so I see what they're after

[@SidSimple-j4s]

Ms Weingarten. Controlling costs is critically important. Subsidizing higher debt won't fix this. Regulation of private higher education is the way.

[@mw66683]

If students are using AI to complete their coursework, is education even taking place?

[@aar0n709]

I agree

[@Wolf_90702]

1000 and 2000 level courses are busy work courses. It's not until 3000 and 4000 level courses should you start putting some effort into learning the topics but this various on the major or minor.

[@TheRedishFire99]

This comment section is full of boomers and bots who haven’t been in school in years and clearly have never tried to use AI to do an assignment, it’s not that good, i’m in college right now and the only thing it can do effectively is maybe write a paper, but they have AI detection so it’s still basically impossible, plus you’ll fail the tests anyway if you cheat on the coursework. (I am in college right now)

[@ChiRusNkFUSA]

Why pay the department of education when you could give the money to all parent and let them send their kids to the school that is best for them??

[@lynne4948]

Keep dreaming unless it’s a trick in it for Trump 😂

[@pixiepatriot351]

It will take out all the agenda bs and go back to what school was supposed to be about, knowledge! Go back to reading, writing, and arithmetic!

[@TheSuperScifiShow]

Funny how you think that what we were being taught before the 2010s wasn't part of an agenda. Haha! NEWS FLASH: all of it was...and still is. Accurate history, from different perspectives, need to be taught; not the propaganda from White men who only want you to see and know of their accomplishments and perspective. A lot of different people made this country what it is today, good and bad. School is a place to learn and be taught to expand the mind, not limit it the way you clearly want to. Most Republicans know that if most people were smarter, with good critical thinking skills, and an unwillingness to embrace their internalized racism, misogyny and anti-LGBT teachings, then someone as toxic, backwards, blatantly corrupt and transparent as Donald Trump (or any Republicans really) would NEVER get elected to the highest office in these United States.

[@thothfund]

We need to invest in education, invest in public safety, and invest in America's future growth.

[@davinchau9158]

When people only care about cutting costs and increasing profits; suddenly everyone is an accountant.

[@KBergs]

The US currently spends more per capita, on education, than other western countries and gets much worse results. Healthcare applies to the above too 😂

[@GNXClone]

What happens, Idiocracy. Oh wait, we're already here.

[@Atlantathroughfood]

This is going to be such a blow to America bc this feels so abelist wtf

[@TerrifyingWorld]

The education system deserves to be dismantled. Public education in this country is dominated by overpaid, parasitic administrators who do nothing but make life difficult on teachers and staff. They let the parents and students run the show. They bow down to the almighty consultants that preach "new theories" in education despite there being no proof they work. The consultants convinced administrators that phonics is outdated, now these kids can't read. Testing companies sold testing packages up the wazoo, now they have to teach to the test. There's no book on the test, so the kids have never read a book. Many education departments have eliminated after school detention, Saturday suspensions and other consequences and the kids run all over them. Education allowed salesmen to come in and run them raw. Universities have long been a money grab. They keep charging more and more because they know people will pay for it. They convinced employers that workers don't deserve to be paid a fair wage if they didn't go to school for some arbitrary BS to work a job that has nothing to do with it. It's so backwards. Most middling office jobs that require degrees can be learned in four months. Inexpensive, four to seven month certificates should suffice for just about any job, discounting the medical, law, or engineering and related fields. There's no reason why someone with a psychology degree should be getting paid more than someone with a decade of experience. If you want someone who can commit to something and exhibit discipline, hire a vet with at least 4 years active duty service with an honorable discharge. I'd rather hire that person over some poor soul with 50,000 in debt and a communications degree. This system is broken. Tear it down. We have nothing to lose.

[@lynne4948]

But yet, you all have allowed billionaires to come in and bamboozle you! Trump, Vivek, Musk, and the rest are far worse than any administrator or consultant that you have ever laid eyes on! Screenshot this for future reference…

[@garlandgrimes4648]

I believe we need to reinforce the principle of subsidiarity, the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level. Decisions that are made locally are more responsive to the needs of the people they serve. A top-down system leads more easily to authoritarianism, to one and only one way of thinking. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." There is no reason to believe that the services afforded by the federal Department of Education cannot be provided at the state level. Some may argue that if things are turned over to the states, certain programs will fall by the wayside. Again, that assumes that there is "one and only one way" of addressing the need. By allowing the states, whose elected officials are closer to the actual needs of the people, to implement their own programs, we will likely find a lot more creativity and success in how these needs can be addressed. Less government, more freedom.

[@adriencampos7427]

Department of Education was a failure from the start. I don’t believe it needs to be shut down, it does in fact need massive reform. Moving education back to the states is a terrible idea.

[@NeoSoulCrew]

Its a big bureaucratic failure. Kids are dumber than ever.

[@michaelholdren9776]

Empires always end up falling

[@b22chris]

Education was fine before the department of education was created

[@MrSuperflydude]

Since the founding of the department of education not a single metric has improved in pupil performance. It's clearly not working.

[@breal7277]

Abolishing the D of Ed will increase the wealth gap (and maybe the project 2025 plan is to make education accessible only to the wealthy). Many poor families rely on fed aid loans to be able to afford college. On the other hand, I agree that the states should be in charge of their own education, as they all have very different needs and priorities. Wealthy states like California and Texas will do fine without the D of Ed, but poor states like Alabama and Louisiana will not.

[@criscross7362]

The DoE does not design the states' curriculum. As the report said, it is basically oversight and disbursing money through Pell Grants and student loans.

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

@@criscross7362 they dont want facts they want to be angry that Trump is making education illegal 😡😡 /s

[@travelingnikkiting]

Agreed!

[@MrWhangdoodles]

As a European, I doubt we'd notice the difference.

[@LifeRx-b4z]

In hindsight, knowing what I know about student loans now, I would not have taken loans out and would not have went straight from highschool to College. I would have worked for 10 years, saved my money, then went to a small affordable community college. No 17 or 18 year old should be allowed to sign out mortgage sized loans on a piece of paper. Student loan interest rates need to be capped and college tuition needs transparency, it's the total real cost is buried like our medical system. I didn't know what to major in and my college advisor said "just keep taking classes, you'll figure out what you want to do." That was the most costly advice I've ever taken. I should have known better, but at 17 with parents who knew nothing of college; I was on my own.

[@princessaquamarie6004]

Im apart of the foster care system and a black female American! Ive seen immigrant students get millions while we only get a 3rd of that! I cant help that my parents died but they CHOSE to be immigrants! Why do they deserve more than me and im born here!???

[@markjabari1101]

You do know immigrants who are not permanent residents get charged almost double the fees as international students in college, so what you are saying makes no sense in regards to education system

[@Lucy-en4jt]

Because they don't do anything for anyone.

[@MissJen-78]

Of course the dept of Education needs restructuring however, this administration is the very last I’d ever trust to do so.

[@TheStrandedSavant]

School should be free

[@notsosuavemate]

Only at the Federal level it has gone too far. Each state should decide for themselves.

[@ramangupta8012]

Economist would be well aware the Risk of “vicious circle of poverty” if poor or needy don’t get right level of support for education

[@Chrissygirl-gf5tr]

It’s funny that they actually debate whether public education should be made a priority or not. If you look up the history of who created the public school system and why you’ll discover it was solely for the purpose of positing people to be blue collar workers. So yes, many republicans do have a have and have nots mentally when it comes to education because that’s what it was founded on. Let’s be honest, most people who can afford private school do not send their children to public school because they want them to have a leg up in life when competing with their peers. Look at who’s getting majority of the full ride scholarships. It’s not public school kids. Ts the kids whose parents are more likely to be able to afford their tuition.

[@jwhard2385]

This country will be a better place for the children.

[@Eyeris625]

I just think the department has been poorly managed

[@TinLeadHammer]

Emily Wilkins: as a congressional reporter you should avoid dangling modifiers.

[@CharlesK-n6q]

Considering that America has become the laughing stock of the free world in recent years, I wouldn't shed one tear if the so-called Department of Education is disbanded...countries in Asia have been eating our lunch for years because the quality of our education have been substandard if not lackluster, the children are just not motivated, and since for many of them a diploma is not even worth the paper it's printed on these days.....

[@luckyskivvy6077]

😂 Have you seen the literacy rates and math scores??? The current system is 💩

[@CodyPease]

how can the us compete with the rest of the world if normal people can't afford college? sure, some people can join trades but, thats not a great option for long term health. i'm in my twenties and now considering going to college( i didn't go right away because of a fear of debt and made some bad life decisions). i'm admit i sound like i'm whining about my own mistakes, but getting rid of the department of education is just a terrible idea. let's hope this is just an empty threat.

[@fixerdrew02]

Kentucky is about to get A LOT dumber

[@stevenarseneault1972]

Am I wrong to think that is all part of Trump's way of "The art of the deal" ? I haven't read his book but I wonder if this is a tactic to get changes done that is wanted. "Doing it or else". This is his way of getting it done.

[@_Meng_Lan]

Nah he's just a sadist anti christ

[@_Meng_Lan]

Nah he's just a s a d ist anti christ

[@Kriliska]

American education has been awful and useless for as long as I can remember and only got worse over time. I struggle to find intelligent Americans despite looking everywhere, this is a society of people who don't know anything about anything. Health, physics, geopolitics, economy, finances, digital literacy, history... NOTHING. I don't know what the hell people do in American schools but it doesn't seem like much. Something needs to change around here...

[@IRBry]

you’ll have a country as educated as him lmao rip