Intellectuals

The Republicans don't like intellectuals, they think too much and can't be controlled that easy. Also when you have an integrated school systems you do not create bigots, you create compassioned children that care for others and the Republicans can't have any of that!

Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department

NPR

By Cory Turner

March 5, 2025

President Trump is expected to issue an executive action as early as Thursday calling on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education," according to a draft of the action obtained by NPR.

The move has been expected since early February, when the White House revealed its intentions but withheld the action itself until after McMahon's Senate confirmation.

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The draft action instructs McMahon to act "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law," an acknowledgement that the department and its signature responsibilities were created by Congress, are protected by statute and cannot legally be altered without congressional approval, which would almost certainly require 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster.

So why are they so hellbent on scraping the Department of Education? They say to cut government waste... but why gut the whole department?

Well I believe for one thing it is to alter history! They want a rosy picture of the pilgrims ignoring the indentured servants. They want to teach that the slaves were happy, had a roof over their heads, and feed... what more could they ask for?

Just like they rewrite Jan6 they want to rewrite the past, so that it doesn't make the kids embarrassed for being White.

Why does Trump want to abolish the Education Department? An anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons

The Conversation

By Alex Hinton

February 7, 2025

“And one other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education.”

President Donald Trump made this promise in a Sept. 13, 2023, campaign statement. Since then, he has frequently repeated his pledge to close the U.S. Department of Education.

Project 2025, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for the Trump administration, also provides detailed recommendations for closing the Education Department, which was created by an act of Congress in 1979.

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I am an anthropologist and have been studying U.S. political culture for years. During Trump’s first presidency, I wrote a book about the extremist far-right called “It Can Happen Here”. Since then, I have continued to study the Make America Great Again, or MAGA, movement, seeking to understand it, as the anthropological expression goes, “from the native’s point of view.”

So what are these reasons?

1. Education Department’s alleged ‘woke’ mentality

First and foremost, Trump and his supporters believe that liberals are ruining public education by instituting what they call a “radical woke agenda” that they say prioritizes identity politics and politically correct groupthink at the expense of the free speech of those, like many conservatives, who have different views.

Yep, I can go along with that! When you consider anything else but the party line as being "Woke!" I have given right to not serve any trans people! I have a right to shoot a Black kid ringing my doorbell!

2. American Marxist indoctrination

For MAGA supporters, ”radical left“ wokeness is part of liberals’ long-standing attempt to ”brainwash“ others with their allegedly Marxist views that embrace communism.

One version of this ”American Marxism“ conspiracy theory argues that the indoctrination dates to the origins of U.S. public education. MAGA stalwarts say this alleged leftist agenda is anti-democratic and anti-Christian.

Oh this is a goody! Oh yes, anything that takes away "MINE" is Marxist! I (farmed/worked/born/lived) fill in the blanks I ain't paying for any (food/housing/babies) freeloader! Of course they conveniently forget all the services they get from the government.

3. School choice and parental rights

Did you ever notices that it is always "their rights" and not the other parents rights? They want to ban books but ignore other parents parents wishes!

 4. Red tape

But these are not the only reasons... BBC News reports,

Why do Republicans want to abolish it?

The idea of eliminating the education department has been floated by Republicans for nearly as long as it has existed.

During Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, he pushed for it to be dismantled.

Republicans have historically pushed against centralising education policy, believing that it is best left up to individual states and localities.

More recently they have accused the education department of pushing what they describe as "woke" political ideology on to children, including on gender and race.

Trump's allies also want to expand school choice, which would allow students and families to use public money to select private or religious alternatives to public schools.

Conservatives argue that other education department functions, such as administering loans, should be handled instead by the US Department of Treasury, and that civil rights infractions are the Department of Justice's domain.

Then we have segregation. The Republicans have always hated desegregation, they worry that if White students mix with Blacks, Latinos, with LGBTQ+ students that they won't hate them like good little right-wing conservatives do. They want to keep schools white and middle class and they plan on doing it by vouchers!

Project 2025 and GOP Aim for Universal School Choice. What Would That Look Like?

States have been responsible for promoting private school choice. How a federal policy could take shape

Education Week

By Libby Stanford

August 19, 2024

Private school choice—using public funds to help families pay for private school tuition and homeschooling—figures prominently into Republican education priorities this election cycle.

Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation, and the GOP’s official 2024 platform both call for “universal school choice,” painting school choice that’s available to all families regardless of income and other factors as a long-term goal that would ultimately have “schools serve parents, not the other way around,” as Project 2025 puts it.

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Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, public schools have been required to accept all students living within their zone. If families have greater access to private schools with the help of federal or state funds, public schools will ultimately lose enrollment, Harris said.

“Over time, it will whittle away and public schools will become like what public hospitals used to be—the schools that people go to when they can’t get anything else,” he said.

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School choice critics also share concerns that private schools aren’t held to the same standardized testing and accountability requirements as public schools. Multiple studies of Louisiana’s private school voucher program found that participating students’ reading and math scores declined in the first few years after using the program to transfer to private schools.

Not only that, but they can also discriminate against us and other minorities!

There ultimate goal is to strip public education down to the lowest common denominator... teaching the 3Rs. Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic! Just enough for them to sign a contract but not understand it!

They only want the rich White folks to have an education! It is simply another form of Jim Crow laws.