Posted on 02/21/2024 10:47:35 AM PST by Red Badger
The Department of Education is, like many of the departments in the federal government, a waste of time, money, and an intrusion on local control. It doens't have many good reasons for its existence and, if we're being honest, acts more as a vanity project that administrations can use to say they're doing something new and good for the kids.
It should rightfully be destroyed and that's what Kentucky's Thomas Massie is trying to do.
On Wednesday, Massie announced on X that he introduced H.R. 899, a bill that would obliterate the DoE.
"I introduced a bill to end the Department of Education," Massie posted. "We must return the money and authority back to states, school districts, teachers, and parents before it’s too late."
On Massie's website, he goes into further detail, quoting former President Ronald Reagan who also wanted to collapse the Department of Education:
"Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development," said Massie. "States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students. Schools should be accountable. Parents have the right to choose the most appropriate educational opportunity for their children, including home school, public school, or private school."
The Department of Education began operating in 1980. On September 24, 1981, in his Address to the Nation on the Program for Economic Recovery, President Ronald Reagan said, “As a third step, we propose to dismantle two Cabinet Departments, Energy and Education. Both Secretaries are wholly in accord with this. Some of the activities in both of these departments will, of course, be continued either independently or in other areas of government. There's only one way to shrink the size and cost of big government, and that is by eliminating agencies that are not needed and are getting in the way of a solution. Now, we don't need an Energy Department to solve our basic energy problem. As long as we let the forces of the marketplace work without undue interference, the ingenuity of consumers, business, producers, and inventors will do that for us. Similarly, education is the principal responsibility of local school systems, teachers, parents, citizen boards, and State governments. By eliminating the Department of Education less than 2 years after it was created, we cannot only reduce the budget but ensure that local needs and preferences, rather than the wishes of Washington, determine the education of our children.”
The DoE is know for spending ridiculous sums of money that, while it has been reduced significantly (nearly $638 billion in 2022 down to $274 billionin 2023) still takes up an enormous amount of taxpayer dollars, most of which go to grants and student loans, the latter of which Democrats want to use your taxpayer dollars to pay off.
It should also be mentioned that this is where radical activists come to roost. In 2021, I reported how the Biden administration promoted two radical CRT groups through the DoE in order to transform the curriculum in our nation's schools, one of which openly said they wanted to be "feared."
In September of last year, the DoE decided to investigate author and educator Christopher Rufo for "misgendering" a DEI director at New College of Florida.
It's a ridiculous department that isn't really good for much and horrible in every other way. It's rife for corruption and abuse, and it's time for it to go.
As Massie notes, power over the education system should be given to state and local officials. Families and communities should have far more power over how their child is educated and the federal government should stay well out of it.
Incomplete, incomplete.
1. Demolish all items associated with that sewer organization.
2. Burn the residue.
3. Capture all woke “eddikators”.
4. Retrain the woke or them, execute those who fail.
5. Launch remains of all into the sun.
6. Pray that the sun doesn’t get pissed and fires that refuse back to earth.
This is the very first move by the somnambulant GOP that is unrelated to its permanent circle jerk...
Destroying Dept. of Indoctrination would have to include firing all administrators and teachers, razing all the current regional indoctrination centers, and eliminating all education rights for non-citizens...
Yes.
The problem is going to be to get Trump and others in the GOP to not think they can “reform education” using powers of the Federal Department of Education. As soon as they are out of office Liberal/Leftist sucessors will use those “reforms” to their own ends, because the power to do so will remain in the dep of ed.
How would eliminating Carter’s federal monstrosity reach down and directly fire state and county employees? It might reduce money to the state & county and they would have raise local taxes or lay them off. That would be the local educrat establishment and the voters call! Did you actually think state & local educrats and teachers were federal employees? The Carter Monstrosity only has roughly 4000 employees.
Fakers like Massie have been feeding this Bullshit since 1979.
The Repubs have had numerous periods of total control of all three branches in the last 40+ years.
And never did a thing.
Why doesn’t Massie campaign on repealing the Panama Canal Treaty ? That goes back just as far.
Ever since the Department of Education was created, education in this country has gone downhill like a snowball in Aspen.................
Looking it up, the closing of Education would save $53B over ten years. It’s a start.
No major item within the administrative state has ever been abolished in the 120 years since the administrative state was foisted upon us as a part of the progressive peacetime agenda.
They are going to fight like anything to make sure such a precedent is never set.
All of the democrats and most of the progressive republicans would oppose such an abolition of any part of the administrative state.
But without the DOE how will kids learn about queers and trannys? How will white kids learn to hate themselves?
Abolish it now.
How will kids learn how to put condoms on a cucumber?..............
Three agencies need to go right away, commerce, education and uh, another one.
Labor, Energy, STATE........................
“... would save $53B over ten years.”
That should cover completing the border fencing and several ED-209s to patrol our side ...
It wasn’t clear you meant that from your text!
7. Tear out the phone and cable lines....burn the real estate. Drive a stake into the heart of the former disgraceful DOE!
Yes! Since the US Department of Education was established by Jimmie Carter in 1979 it has been a drag on America’s kids. They in essence transferred the good work being done at state and local levels from the pursuit of excellence to a pursuit of mediocrity. It is the DOE which has forced upon local school districts all of the liberal garbage with which they are now saddled. Since established student proficiency has fallen to into the pit. As compared to other kids, worldwide, we rank below below all of the industrialized nations. The US Department of Education is ruining the schools and the nation. They must go.
https://youtu.be/CWQGn1lNSVg?si=0YijSqYwnuPLrXWD
Get rid of these departments next. W. T. H. did I just watch?
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