Posted on 03/06/2023 12:00:42 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Forty-fifth President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to reporters and a huge crowd of supporters on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and promised to “abolish” the Department of Education.
Before speaking on stage, Trump told reporters, “I would like to end the Department of Education. It’s time. The country does very well in some ways, but badly in others. We did fantastically in everything.”
“We did as good as you can do in education, but you have to get rid of the Department of Education. Close it up,” Trump added.
“When you look at the list of countries, we’re always at the bottom. We spend more money on people and we’re always at the bottom of the list of forty countries,” Trump continued.
“We should close it up and let local areas… frankly, states handle education. I don’t know if that’s good politically to say or bad politically to say. But that’s the way it’s going to be. We are going to close it up,” Trump said.
While on stage, Trump doubled down and vowed to “abolish” the bureacracy that was founded in 1979.
Trump is correct. The Department of Education is failing at its mission and the federal government should relinquish its regulation of America’s schools to the states.
In February, news broke of 23 Baltimore schools having zero students proficient in math after the latest round of state test scores were released.
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“Baltimore City’s math scores were the lowest in the state. Just 7 percent of third through eighth graders tested proficient in math, which means 93 percent could not do math at grade level,” according to Fox Baltimore.
“We, the taxpayer, are funding our own demise,” A Baltimore resident who filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools, Jovani Patterson, said.
“We’re not living up to our potential. My immediate reaction is, take your kids out of these schools,” Patterson added.
In addition to making bold statements about the role of the government in education during his speech, Trump also promised the Republican Party will “never” return to the “party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.”
“But we are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush,” Trump said.
Trump crushed any questions of him not being the leader of the Republican party yet again with a 42-point landslide lead in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) famous straw poll released on Saturday.
Trump came in first place, of course, with 62 percent. Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) came in second place with 20 percent, 42 points behind Trump.
With polls showing Trump in the lead amongst all potential Republican and Democrat challengers, any potential candidate will have an impossible battle if they attempt to usurp the favorite to win the 2024 nomination.
That will never happen.
We ought to compare how the average American student was doing in academic proficiency Before we had an operating Department of Education ( circa 1980 ).
I suspect our kids did much better before the DOE was established and progressively got worse ever since.
it wouldn’t change a thing. the money still has to be distributed to the same parties.
A leader uses influence to get things done.
Didn’t Eisenhower start this? Republicans are usually the ones to begin big government agencies. Bush homeland security, ford EPA, Eisenhower education and I’m sure many more.
The abolition of permissive parenting and school discipline would do even more good.
Remember to say how much you love St. Carter of the Commies for the Department of Education and shutting down Verona.
Yes this is a spin off from the Department of Health Education and Welfare. They are now each their own entity. It’s about funds...not education per se.
Minneapolis, Minnesota is another with failing scores.
DOE is the biggest failure in the history of failures.
Go for it Mr President !!!
In 1979 when Congress was debating the bill to create the Department, on Congressman properly raised the concern that the department should have a different name to avoid confusion of the acronym for the Department of Energy. Department of Public Education and Youth recognizing the intent to sway the young people was the first attempt that was voted down. Then more simply the Department of Public Education was tried, and failed. Almost 50 years later we can confirm the proposals were on the mark - the Department of Education as actually DOPEY and has only produced DOPE children.
“Sir” (he likes telling stories about people calling him sir)
“Sir” after you disband the DOE, would you kindly swing your axe and knock off the EPA, BATF, NEA, NPR, & PBS?
We’re actually pretty broke, and could save a lot of money in these areas. Thank you Sir!
Alas, we have heard that promise before and nothing came of it. it was like repealing Obamacare.
Both DOEs.
Get a couple of trouble maker kids in a class and the rest cannot learn even if they want to. The real problem is no discipline allowed
I also have another thought. I think if there were more male teachers, things might be better. Only because I've had both...and there seemed to be more respect for male teachers.
One of the problems is....female teachers...most are pretty cocky...and think they’re right...no matter what. And this tenure...I had someone go to see a teacher about their child...the first thing the teacher said...”Before you say anything, let me tell you...I have tenure”. My friends were livid.
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