#dept of education

[relaxedstyles]

[liberalsarecool]

Rick Scott, human scrotum, asks incredulously, in the most bad faith way possible, 'why do we have the DOE?!' The gall.

You could explain to Rick, but he does not care. Like all Republicans out to destroy the public good delivered by the social safety net, Rick thinks defunding education is a funny game he gets to win.

Republicans want education to fail by cutting Federal funding. The cost will just get passed down to states. No improvement.

Here is your refesher on the DOE:

Florida conservatives are the worst.

[republicansaretheproblem]

Musk and Trump now allegedly have access to all student loan data. They’re gathering more and more information about you.

🖕

[socialjusticeinamerica]

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[marvelsmostwanted]

Anyway, Trump intends to abolish the federal Department of Education this week. That’s a messy proposition that will involve legal challenges, and an act of Congress that probably (?) won’t pass, and most schools do not rely exclusively on federal funding anyway, but it would put federal education programs at risk and the very idea should be enough to have Democrats out in the street rallying.

Is no one interested in standing up for public school students or teachers, who surely have suffered enough in the past few years - from the pandemic, dealing with anti-vax parents, having to remove banned books from classrooms, trans kids being targeted and teachers being told we’re turning kids trans, doing active shooter drills and facing frequent threats, teachers being chronically underpaid, and students dealing with mental health crises and academic needs that schools are not always properly resourced to deal with? Anyone care? Hello? And that’s not to mention issues in higher education, from the cost to the unfairness of legacy admissions (actual DEI) to Republicans claiming “free speech” is being attacked and someone should be fired every time someone says something they don’t like.

Democrats should be champions of public education, especially since Republicans clearly have no issue exclusively supporting private and religious schools and “school choice” (a coded term for people who miss when schools were segregated). This should be a key issue and it should be easy for us to win. Everywhere Republicans put school choice vouchers on the ballot, they lost in 2024. Voters want good public schools. They want public funds to go to public schools. We just have to show up and fight for that.

I could go on for days on this topic - like, can we talk about how we can be a pro-science, pro-education, and pro-intellectual party and also the relatable, pro-worker, pro-people having jobs without a college degree party? What happened to talking about free community college, btw? I could go on!!

But I’ll end with this - there are elected Democrats who are former public school teachers - Tim Walz and Elizabeth Warren, to name a few. Where are they? Who’s leading the charge here? We’re just going to sit around and pretend things are fine while Republicans put Bibles in our publicly funded schools?

Far from the first person to say it in the past few weeks, but what the fuck, guys? Where are we on this????!

[inkingtwice]

Internets, you know what to do.

[anorganizedstreet]

[relaxedstyles]

[prepfor2025]

in preparation, day one (11/19/24)

Hello! This is day one of my preparation blogging. I've actually been slowly doing things to prepare for a while now, but I've decided to start documenting them to Tumblr today.

Today, after work, was focused on my library building project. I've started to create my own physical AND digital library of books I think are important and relevant to the coming years. I am very believing in the idea that certain books will be in smaller production, if not made completely illegal. So I would like to prepare both for that possibility, and also educate myself while I am at it. (I hope to start posting about the books I read as I go, almost like book reports.)

I've collected quite a few non fiction books on (honest) American history, previous tyrannical rulers, and the impacts of oppression. I have also started compiling "thumb drive libraries" that I can carry with me in my go/bugout bag. If anyone is interested in this, I would love to share what I have downloaded on them so far! And if anyone has any ideas of things I should add, let me know!

So, that is the progress for today!

[thebctman]

I’m actually freaking out over the Dept of Education being potentially dismantled.

I can’t go to fucking college without FAFSA. I worked my ass off for years so I could go to colleges with scholarships and aid. Even if I got incredible scholarships, it means nothing without aid.

5s on all of my APs, a good SAT score, an incredible average and getting though shit by the fucking grit of my teeth.

It can’t have all been for nothing.

[flergblerg]

2 things can be true at once: the U.S. Dept of Education is deeply flawed

That said, the solution is NOT to dismantle it with no viable alternative to improve public education

[voltaspistol]

People grumble now when property taxes go up by 0.5% percent to fund schools, they are going to lose their goddamn minds when they find out that when federal school funding ends in accordance to Trump's plan, they'll be on the hook to fund ALL of it. And that Trump's plan to lower federal taxes is.... He won't. Not in the numbers his followers are expecting. He's handing all of the surplus to fund to his kleptocracy after skimming a generous portion off the top. But I'm sure prayer will make up the shortfall, right? /s

[onenakedfarmer]

She's MAGA.

She's voting.

She wants bibles in every classroom.

[wwwdlabrie]

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