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In 1979, Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. Since then, the United States has gone from 1st to 17th in Education.
X.com ^ | 12:57 PM · Feb 9, 2025 | Spencer Hakimian✓@SpencerHakimian

Posted on 02/09/2025 12:31:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Shameful


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KEYWORDS: carter; deptofed; education
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not no. HELL NO!


41 posted on 02/09/2025 2:08:38 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Leaning Right

Vouchers should go to the parents, not the schools.


42 posted on 02/09/2025 2:10:40 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: heylady

> Wow you are willing to ruin my children’s future on an experiment. <

I am surprised by your hostility there. I did not contact you. You asked me a question, and I answered it honestly and to the best of my ability.

Perhaps I should restate my position. I now believe that school choice is the best way going forward. But it most certainly will be an experiment.

With government vouchers will come government interference, strings will be attached. That’s a given. The question is how much interference there will be. Minimal interference or crushing interference? That’s what makes it an experiment.

If you wish to politely discuss this further, I am willing. But I’m not interested in fighting over the subject.


43 posted on 02/09/2025 2:18:56 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Overwhelmed by hordes of non-English speaking children and their many special needs. Combined with the continued dissolution of the family.


44 posted on 02/09/2025 2:31:57 PM PST by drwoof
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

> Everybody gets their own “safe space” on campus these days except white people. <

You’re right about that. I was speaking of my own experience as a child of the ‘60s. Everyone in my neighborhood was either a child or grandchild of people from Eastern Europe. Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians (that’s me), etc.

It was at the public school that I met - and became friends with - all sorts of different people. That was good for me, good for them, and good for the country.

But as you noted, insane liberals have ruined all that. They are deliberately trying to divide us. I don’t know whether that’s due to stupidity of evilness.

Maybe it’s both.


45 posted on 02/09/2025 2:33:28 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sorry.
In #45 it should read: stupidity OR evilness


46 posted on 02/09/2025 2:39:05 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep. Time to dismantle it along with most of these alphabet agencies.


47 posted on 02/09/2025 3:30:57 PM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: rellic

Ol Jimmah was the captain of the famous first nuke sub, the Nautilus.


48 posted on 02/09/2025 3:36:49 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To be honest the drop in our rank is caused by immigration of million of low IQ people, many of whom are ineducable.


49 posted on 02/09/2025 3:38:11 PM PST by dljordan
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To: antidemoncrat

I heard 1st to 24th less than a month ago. Can’t remember the source. But all the results are negative.


50 posted on 02/09/2025 4:50:49 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: dljordan
To be honest the drop in our rank is caused by immigration of million of low IQ people, many of whom are ineducable.

BINGO

Our White and Asian kids by any metric perform equal or better than anyone else in the world.

It's our Black and Latino numbers drive our numbers down.

This was first found by study commissioned by Obama.

51 posted on 02/09/2025 5:31:58 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“How strange.”

Not really. The DOE was a mechanism the left could infiltrate and use to brainwash our kids in leftist policies and dumb them down at the same time.

It’s a part of big government that should not exist. The bigger the government, the more agencies = the more power the left has over us. The EPA is a prime example of the left exercising their power over the people. USAID is a prime example how the left steals our money.

Any agency that does not have a constitutional purpose needs to go. The Founding Fathers had the right idea, less government equals better government.


52 posted on 02/09/2025 5:43:08 PM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

17th? What, in countries that start with the letter “U”?


53 posted on 02/09/2025 5:43:54 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: BobL

How old are you?
I had to live through
Jimmas military and the subsequent
gas crisis he caused.
He is Schiff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to take his sweater and
Garrote him with it.


54 posted on 02/09/2025 6:53:42 PM PST by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: Dilbert San Diego
It might be expected that such a department of government, would improve the status of the area of life which that department was set up to deal with.

Oh, it did vastly improve the condition of those it was set up to deal with. The professional educational bureaucracy is much better off as is the cleptocrat class in the educational industry. Lots of union thives are far better off than they were before. Of course our students are far worse off than they were before, but the Dept of Education was never meant to help them anyway.

55 posted on 02/10/2025 8:53:25 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Leaning Right
The US Department of Education had little to do with that.

Standards they push out and DEI and etc etc are a big part of that. Without DoE, some States would suck and others would still be good, yet somehow we've gone down everywhere...
56 posted on 02/10/2025 1:35:04 PM PST by Svartalfiar (-)
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