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byAnonymous Coward writes:
Trump wants to re-write history and only teach things he agrees with. He has already deleted plenty of inconvenient truths from the Department of Defense website and purged photos that show historical events he doesn't agree with. Returning education to the states is his attempt to let states warp their curriculum to whatever version of history is in favor this year.
Moon landing? Didn't happen.
Holocaust? Made up to justify WWII.
Evolution? False because apes can't talk.
Bible study? Mandatory.
byDan East ( 318230 ) writes:
Trump wants to re-write history and only teach things he agrees with
Isn't he relinquishing his federal power over education by dismantling the federal department of education? I mean if that's his goal, to rewrite history and control what is taught, wouldn't he want to consolidate power at his level of the government even more?
I just don't understand the logic here, because he wouldn't need to return control to the states. It is totally within his power to have the education department let the states do whatever they want (and for the most part they already can, right?) and
bynarcc ( 412956 ) writes:
The goal is to make it as difficult as possible for public schools to function so that they can justify funneling public money into private schools. For most of them, it's a cash grab. For the rest, it's a way to get our tax dollars to pay for compulsory Jesus lessons.
bysinij ( 911942 ) writes:
How is reducing bureaucratic overhead is "make it as difficult as possible for public schools to function"?
bymeekrab ( 4680249 ) writes:
This is a false framing of what Cheeto Benito is doing and you should be embarrassed for resorting to it.
bysinij ( 911942 ) writes:
No thanks. In case that wasn't clear from my other posts, I fully support elimination of the Department of Education.
byWaffleMonster ( 969671 ) writes:
No thanks. In case that wasn't clear from my other posts, I fully support elimination of the Department of Education.
There is a difference between policy preferences and the implementation of those policies. You may have heard the phrase "ends don't justify means".
While one may fully support a world without pedophiles this policy preference does not justify impaling anyone you believe is or could be a pedophile on the spire of the Burj Khalifa.
Likewise in this particular case there are legal avenues for elimination of the department of education. Executive fiat is not one of them. The department of education is congressionally mandated and can only be eliminated via congressional legislation. The president is constitutionally charged with taking care the laws be faithfully executed not selectively breaking them by effective destruction of a congressionally mandated agency.
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