Originally published at: Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’ - TPM – Talking Points Memo
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Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’
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Why educate people… it makes them vote for democrats
Plus it saves money to have no public education
Sheesh!
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The last of the hoary shibboleth; education is the final standing union that does not protect the rich.
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So what happens when a household that has no children? I pay my real estate taxes, and a portion of the total is allotted to my public school district? Then there’s the actual concept of a “school district”. Just think of all those athletes that play football, baseball, or soccer for the public school’s teams. Hoping to be good enough to get scouted for a college/university athletic team.
So many threads to pull that will cause some major hurt in ways they haven’t accounted for.
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Lock the public schools’ doors. Replace them with Christian schools and home schooling. What could go wrong?
What hath voters wrought?
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Approx 1/2 of Americans of the WW2 generation lacked a high school diploma.
I knew several, including my parents, who had to leave school during the Great Depression to help their families survive.
Return to the days of yesteryear.
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You knew it was coming. Donnie is an empty vessel for all the Grover Norquists’, Peter Theils’ and Federalist Society Stooges’ suggestion box for their screw the public wrapped in whatever motivates donnie’s hate and need for revenge. Interestingly enough;, it is the 30% or so of his support that is left that will get the broom handle shoved up the farthest, unlubbed.
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True. But the public high school diploma was still available for those who could manage the time. I’d say that having a mostly literate population was instrumental in the successes of that greatest generation, militarily and economically. The difference I see from then, was my parent’s generation knew the value of an education although they may not have had the wherewithal to achieve it. Us kids were going to go to school and graduate if they had to tan our hides to make it happen. I don’t know that education and those that teach are valued as they were when I was in a rural public school district through the ‘60s to ‘70s. It seems, sadly, not to be the case.
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Great! More room for data centers! Get those AIs humming and they can take over schooling.
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Republicans were put into power now by frankly stupid people. Their plan now is to continue creating stupid voters by dumbing down as many children as possible. And the best way to do that is to provide only inferior education to as many children as possible. Naturally if you put the least qualified people in charge of the effort you guarantee the result. Brilliant plan, just brilliant! America, bend over and kiss your ass goodbye!
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My generation was most likely the last one to learn exclusively from books and lectures and labs. Oh, and a Royal portable for papers and blue books for exams.
Learning now employs digital technology with its plusses and minuses, but the segment of our society that values education has changed little in size, if at all.
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and it also will provide her business;wrestling, with more dumb kids for her business…..
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i have no issues with tech…but unless people learn to read real books printed on paper, they will all be so dumb….wait! they already are;some believe everything that orange blob says.!!!
take a good look at the woman who is doing this…..do you really think she she gives a flying frick about anyone except her self.
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Whether the information is on paper or as pixels, one must still be able to read and read at a level suited to one’s occupation at minimum.
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Whether the information is on paper or on a screen as pixels, one must still be able to read and read at a level suited to one’s occupation at minimum.
The death of blue books has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the rise of AI cheating has caused a resurgence in the use of blue books and paper exams.
Evidently the worldview of those creating and executing the 2025 project includes the conviction that the great lumpen masses do not need anything beyond some elemental education. Approx 1900, the goal of public-school education was to prepare kids to work as store clerks.
So I’ve heard and I luv it.
I’ve only done a little teaching, but I could tell students they’ll have a handwritten quiz on chap 4 of their textbooks. The smart students would learn chap 4 inside and out. Others would still fail the quiz.
You’re right. Did you ever imagine you, me, others saying this and knowing it was true? Jayzus! Keep 'em dumb.
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