[Jamestown1630]

“Trump is telling America’s public school kids that their futures don’t matter.”

I finished public school years before there ever was a 'Dept. of Education'. I received a far better education than kids have for the last four decades. And during those intervening decades, I saw scores of young people entering college completely unfit for a proper higher education. The 'dumbing down' that has taken place under this Department has been frightening.

[Brian Griffin]

The reasons for educational failures are about 70% student, 20% parental, 7% teacher, 2% union and maybe as high as 1% DoE.

[Republican Wildcat]

Somehow we had public schools in the United States prior to the late 1970s when this department was created. Now, if it goes away, public schools are “over”?

I remember in 2017 when a “net neutrality” policy was eliminated that had never existed prior to 2015 and everyone went ballistic like it would be the end of the internet...