If I am elected President,
I will abolish the DOE
and the 55 mph speed limit.
Posted on 04/28/2018 11:20:38 AM PDT by bitt
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that aims to reduce the federal government’s role in K-12 education.
Trump is giving Education Secretary Betsy DeVos just short of a year — 300 days — to identify areas where Washington has overstepped its legal authority in education, and modify and repeal regulations and guidance from her department, if necessary. A report will be returned to the White House and eventually made public, officials said.
Trump complained that the government over the years has forced states and schools to comply with ‘‘federal whims.’’ He said the order will help restore local control over education.
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> to identify areas where Washington has overstepped its legal authority in education
I can save everyone a lot of time and state definitively that wherever Washington has any involvement in education at all, it has overstepped its legal authority.
The Constitution simply does not delegate this power to the feds. All federal activity in this area is unlawful.
The 300 days are up already. I wonder what she reported. I couldn’t seem to locate such a report, but she did criticize educators about their lack of flexibility here:
She was also interviewed on 60 Minutes. Maybe she revealed some tidbits.
MAGA!!!
I’ll save the Pres. 300 days & $X:
YES, it’s not authorized.
YES, the Fed. govt should get out of ALL aspects of education K-college.
Just doing my civic duty, sir.
It looks like whoever wrote this don’t have no English speaking capability, either. Or, with all of the school’s needs, they can’t afford an editor (although I’m sure they have an English teacher or two).
Seriously, that letter makes it look like the school is trying to do a whole lot of things that it should not be doing. Why are all of the special needs kids going to the regular school? Wouldn’t it be more cost effective to have them at a centralized location, so as not to duplicate resources? Why so many aides? Why is *every* student on a free breakfast and lunch program? Is all of that computer technology really necessary, or is it just providing students a way to waste time during school hours? Etc. It also looks like the funding model is seriously flawed.
Yet with all those ways to be inefficient and dump tons of money into the schools, they still can’t manage to teach students the basics. The students get to college knowing how to be perpetual victim bullies who throw tantrums when faced with non-totalitarian ideas, while they are completely clueless about important things like researching potential majors as to whether they are likely to provide a return on one’s education investment. Although, if one must take a “studies” major, it leaves open the question of whether that student was ever smart enough to be admitted into university in the first place.
Thanks for providing that missive from your local school. The way it is written tells me that you are not the first person to challenge the school on its bloated budget.
If it were baseball he would have done well.
But...but...we’re going to catch that dot! We almost had it a couple of times!
Let’s get our terms straight, here.
A scientific theory is a conceptual framework that not only describes and unifies the existing body of knowledge, but provides a basis on which to formulate new, testable hypotheses. Through an iterative process, theories are refined and become more accurate reflections of the underlying reality. Thus, the theory of evolution is a robust conceptual framework for understanding the interrelationships between living organisms and is an integral component of any biological study.
A hypothesis is a logical supposition of a potential consequence of the application of known facts. A good hypothesis is testable; a well-designed experiment will differentiate between the hypothesis and the null hypothesis—in other words, it predicts the result if the hypothesis is true vs. if it is not true. Anthropogenic “global warming” is a hypothesis because it took a single physical fact (that carbon dioxide has a very wide fluorescence band in the infrared portion of the spectrum) and hypothesized that this property controls the amount of solar energy retained at the surface of the earth. This hypothesis was weak at the outset because it did not account for all of the known facts about fluorescence, heat transfer, the role of carbon in the biosphere, etc., and it has almost no predictive value that would enable researchers to actually test it. It is useful from a certain political point of view (because it can be used to limit freedom) but is not a good scientific hypothesis.
Anyway, teaching critical thought is a vital component of education that the schools have abdicated utterly.
Was your use of “feral” intentional, or was it an apt typo here?
Intentional, thank you.
A great many school districts need direct federal funding to comply with mandates.
Special needs classes can eat up a small schools budget very quickly.
Still, I support this move.
Because a single teacher can not control 30 feral teenagers.
I’m not worthy.
Boom!
...........exactly...............have a BIG ceremony over at the Department of Education. Sarah Palin gets to push the plunger on worldwide TV. The whole building comes crashing to a pile of rubble.
Get everybody out first................of course.
OK: (example) global warming (or evolution) is taught as a proven theory instead of as an unverified hypothesis.
Better? this is what I was trying to say - thanks for clarifying.
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