Posted on 07/01/2020 8:36:49 AM PDT by karpov
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Once upon a time, long, long ago, those accused of rape or sexual harassment on campus were dealt with approximately as they would have been in any other non-university context. There would have been due process, the presumption of innocence, the right for the defense to confront the accuser, the right to an unbiased judge, the right for the defendant to hire a lawyer, and other such hoary traditions of justice.
The underlying principle, then, was that it was better that 10 criminals go unpunished, than one innocent person be found guilty.
But in 2011, a “Dear Colleague” Title IX letter came from the Obama administration. It swept away virtually all of those ancient protections for the accused. Here, the even-handed procedures of the courts were deemed too favorable to accused rapists and harassers at universities. This is more than curious; in the past, left-liberals had insisted upon the right of legal aid for the poor. Evidently, that does not apply to the accused on campus. Are there no poor male students?
Betsy DeVos, secretary of education, pretty much rescinded all that and “turned back the clock” to the pre-“Dear Colleague” institutional arrangements. Those of us who believe that justice is justice is justice, whether on the mean streets or the campus quad, certainly welcome this alteration. Yet, that positive change is not enough to save the Department from abolition.
The Department of Education should disappear, simply, because each university, each business, each person ought to be able to impose whatever rules of justice they wish on all people and institutions they deal with voluntarily.
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DEFUND the Dept. of Education.
Right-Now THERE’S a non essential organization. You can lay a lot of blame for all this at THEIR door.
AMEN
Often, in fact, most of the time, public schools are child abuse. And, that includes the “good school” your kids go to. It’s about the educational philosophy, pedagogy, and curriculum, not about how pleasant the teacher is. If you are a teacher in a public school quit. The whole thing is wrong.
Exactly. If more parents would homeschool their kids, there would be no need for those teachers.
Depends on who taught the parents.
“It’s time to abolish the adept of Ed”
Yawn. This has been a Conservative think-tank talking point for 40 years. Republican congresses did nothing remotely in this direction. People still give money to conservative think tanks to keep repeating this fantasy?
Dump the Department of Energy, too.
Look I got one kid that went through the public school in two more in the public school and I can tell you that most teachers are pretty nice people most of them are women yes most of them are liberals but they’re just trying to do their job and it’s your job as a parent to educate your children
if the school educate your children more than you do then you’re not doing your job
For example the schools been trying nonstop to push the climate change and global warming agenda right?
So of course I just personified is that awful teenager Greta and they can’t stand her and therefore they think this entire climate change thing is garbage Just has the liberals try to make it all about Trump
that’s all you have to do it with kids
No. Don’t defund it. TERMINATE IT NOW.
I sat on a public school board for 11 years trying to inject a conservative philosophy to our local school district. What a charade! Local school boards basically have the authority to decide what color graduation gowns will be. That is about it. All matters of curriculum and instruction are decided at the state and federal bureaucrat level. Based on opinions of “education experts” (i.e. wacko progressives) long before the board has any input. Superintendents are products of the same system and will not buck the bureaucracy, no matter what their school board says.
One thing we can learn from Lefties is to not give up on our ideas.
I would guess that only 15%-20% of the American population are capable of educating their children, at home, to a 12th grade level of proficiency.
Unfortunately it will take legislation from Congress.
I don’t see them doing that without some major changes.
Okay. Ferget it then.
Thanks to successive acts by three Republican governors, Florida now has 31,000 kids receiving school vouchers.
It would be just as important to abolish university schools of education. The contradictory junk coming out of those places is more than simply useless. It is actually harmful.
You want to teach, say, chemistry? Then get a degree in chemistry. And then observe a master teacher at work for at least three months.
Use the Department like a hammer. Withhold funds from Marxist universities. Withhold funds from schools that refuse to teach their students math, history and patriotism.
Bring the leftists back in line with the power of the purse.
Yes. Abolish the Dept. of Education. Rapists would continue to be prosecuted, though.
So pretty much the same as public schools, then.
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