Perhaps the most telling line in the announcement is the last one. “We will send education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.”
President Trump has announced the nomination of Linda McMahon to be the next Secretary of Education. Likely with the intention to eliminate the federal Dept of Education.
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Stopped at a fast food drive-thru. The sandwich I was purchasing was $4.78 after tax. I gave the girl at the window $5.03
After a couple minutes where she conversed with three different people, I was given two dimes and five pennies in change.
One can’t t eliminate the department of education fast enough…
Exactly! The progressives destroyed education decades ago, the final nail in the coffin was “common crap” aka Common Core, which was another vile product of the obama years and education secretary Arne Duncan. This was my first eye opening experience into government corruption, graft, and the politicians outright IGNORING those who elected them. I was on the front lines fighting the common crap curriculum push and it was eye opening to say the least. Get your kids out of public and most catholic schools that took the government bribe money to institute the dumbing down curriculum, literally it is intentional. Either home school your child or find a school that teaches Classical Education. It is growing in all 50 states, find one near you.
Common Core came in under Bush middle or end of his last term he too is a one worlder. Listen to his dad’s 93 or 96 speech where he tells about uniting a one world order where the law of the land will rule not the rule of the jungle. He is in HELL currently after his kings departure.
Isn’t that the speech Ministry sampled for “New World Order?” If so it was in 93.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Common core was foisted on all the schools during the obama administration. They threatened all of the states education funding if they did accept common crap guidelines and curriculum. All the textbooks were changed and turned into common crap curriculum. I fought it at the local and state level, and it was when obama was president and Arne Duncan was secretary of education. Arne said that parents should keep their fat noses out of the curriculum decisions and leave it to “better qualified bureacrats”. Bush was responsible for “no child left behind” and that was the nose under the tent of the federal government into the local schools. Prior to that, curriculum was decided by local school boards, made up mostly of parents.
(I typed this as fast as my old hands could, with glasses about two prescriptions out of date-and I quit caring about the Karens bitching about my typing about ten years ago)
No. Bush and his lovely librarian wife foisted that state circumvention on us–to the cricket level reply of conservatives everywhere. Obama added many evils, including budget blackmail, expansion of special education incentives and the elimination of any book that might smell musty and require a reading skill above 3rd grade be removed and replaced with any and all recent garbage in print. The forced budget cuts of classroom textbooks in liu of computer literacy acted as a back door for digital classroom textbooks that fed a Texas based company and gave them a load of wealth and customers at gunpoint and the urge of teachers to push nosy parents out of classrooms was ripe for years before 0bama wanted to control the alphabet groups and limit state right. Place the blame where it should lay-on teachers unions who blackmail teachers to pay dues or they might get sued and loose everything, with admin who sell out education for profit, and with the education farm who pop out teachers already arrogant enough to not want to be questioned and resentful of parents who think they may be smarter than the paper degrees hanging on their concrete block walls…It takes a village quite literally foisted the idea of the left on us all–move over parents the state i.e. the government knows better than you. Take also into account that two parent families are basically a ‘racist’ construct with most children from single parent homes, most inner cities have little to no accountability of their teachers misconduct and unions protect the worst who need culling, and that even in rural areas upwards of 50 percent plus qualify for low income aid, free lunches, and a high percent of children, more every year, falling under the special education banner. Add to that the Karens who want little Johnny never to be accountable and its a miracle ANY good teachers are in this government monstrosity we call education.
I loathed 0bama, was crushed as I watched our little library GUTTED and replaced with crap not fit to read, and was not any happier when Bush took away state control….MANY PEOPLE WARNED THIS WAS BAD LEGISLATION….and low and behold it was. Big government is evil in its intent…always feeding itself at the cost of the slaves who serve it, getting fatter and never content no matter how much it gets in income and power.
FYI-my last job application-after nearly being stabbed by a special ed student with a pencil because I would not let him cheat on a test- I was told by the principal I was NOT being hired to teach history-I was being hired to TEACH COMMON CORE….the fact I was missing a penis and not able or willing to teach a SPORT cemented I did not get that job.
I pity the teachers who care, pray for them and don’t know a single one in it for paycheck. Local control is not the only answer–my lovely school cut gifted education and funneled money into SPORTS and CONCESSIONS SALES while the Middle and Elementary principals hid in their offices earning their Doctorates….This will be messy no matter what–the sludge is thick, corruption, ignorance and laziness rampant in both staff and students, and most schools are fat and prostituted up on federal monies unable to live on a local or state budget. The depression era cuts coming are needed and this purge is gonna hurt.
HOME SCHOOL YOUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS….place them in either private or church/Christian schools if you want them to excel in the future new world.
Those of us with half a brain KNEW what Bush was doing…he has always been for the NWO…Americans just trusted and woke up too late.
The History of Common Core State Standards
“Rick Hess, a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, says the Common Core standards also have roots in No Child Left Behind. Under the President George W. Bush-era education law, the federal government required states to test, disaggregate and report data on student performance, but allowed states to continue deciding on their own which standards and tests to use. “
The Purge is going to hurt but it is sorely needed. The shot of pain medicine I got a few months ago hurt, but it was sorely needed.
Thanks Taylor, you bring up many good points. Actually, the progressives have been chipping away at education for several decades. I was educated in a small catholic school that was basically classical education by nuns who were excellent teachers. I think that my education back then is what enabled me to see the deleterious effect common core was going to have. It substituted any real learning and/or critical thinking with pure propaganda and brainwashing. The math curriculum alone was meant to confuse and frustrate kids into giving up on math and in their God given ability to learn math. Bush may have laid the ground work for common core but it was obama and his education secretary Arne Duncan who instituted it in all 50 states in EVERY school system in America during his time as president. I was fighting it tooth and nail where I live and was up against a state bureaucracy that ignored anything that many of the parents and teachers had to say. We didn’t understand at the time, that the obama administration bribed all the states with money to adopt common core. The states were all hurting financially at the time and nothing we said was ever going to change their mind. The money they were offered to sell out their education was just too appealing. For those of you having a hard time believing common core was instituted under obama, just google it for pete sake.
Agree it was Obama and Duncan. There was a recession at the time (2007-2009) and states didn’t think twice about accepting Race To The Top Funding. CC was untested like the jab, ready to go and pushed through. There was also private sector CC funding from Bill Gates and many other large corporations. They knew much of the cc curriculum in the upper grades would be done on computer giving them the opportunity to data mine. Totally understand your frustration, been there done that.
Preach it!
Yes NCLB was a Bush brain child. Though here in Hawaii “Title IX” gets all the play due to the role of Patsy Mink in it. But I think the problem here is Head Start and its derivatives. From what I see schools are now cafeterias (they give out at least breakfast and lunch) with classrooms attached.
And every classroom has a large trash can to hold the free breakfast that students don’t eat. Many stop by fast food places (expensive but tasty) before they arrive at school to get the “free food”.
Bush was “No Child Left Behind”.
What actually happened? Grades were abandoned or diluted. Everyone could feel good about the “A” until they realized that all students received the “A”.
But this new illusion left no one “behind”.
Our children attended a K-12 Classical Charter School, for which I am thankful. Graduation requirements included a written twenty page thesis presented to faculty, students and parents in an assembly, followed by a Q&A which was beyond challenging and spirited to say the least. Finance, Ethics and Latin were also required for graduation. For those able to enroll their children starting in Kindergarten, Latin was required through 8th grade, Greek, later in primary grades. Academics were to the next level, with emphasis on character, truth and virtue. As LEET mentioned above, Charters and homeschool are growing. Research out a reputable “Classical” Charter School in your area soon, there may be a waiting list.
btw HSLDA is an excellent homeschool resource.
Yessiree Bob, the common denominator to these kind of issues is THE KENYAN! Take that fundamental change thingy and shove it up The Kenyan’s @$$ sideways with 2 boots!
Years ago at Builders Square, the predecessor of Home Depot, our high school son was working as a cashier. The computer system went down and they gave the cashiers calculators to check people out. Nobody knew how to calculate the tax, not even with the calculator. Our son did. The next day, he was put in charge of the contractors since he was the only one to be able to do that and balance the cashier box at the end of his shift. Sad.
I bet a couple of years later he was general store manager.
But of course, don’t you know Math is white supremacy in disguise ?
10 + 10 =
11 + 11 =
The results are the same. The first one is twenty. The second one is twenty too.
very nice.
A little boy comes home from school and Mom asks him “What did you do in Math class today ?”
“Well,” he says, “the teacher was doing Addition facts.”
“Wonderful.” says Mom. “Tell me a few that you remember.”
“Well the teacher said 8 plus 7…the son of a bitch is 15.”
“Oh my.” Mom is startled. “What else did she say ?”
“Well she also said 8 plus 3 …the son of a bitch is 11.”
Mom calls up the teacher and asks her what the hell she is teaching the kids, reciting what her son had just told her.
“Oh no Mam,” replied the teacher. “I guess maybe your son needs hearing aids. I said 8 plus 7…the SUM of which is 15.”
Back in 1962 our family moved to another town ,another school system. My first day n school the math teacher said we are going to learn “new” math! After school when my Dd came home from work he asked me how my first day went. I said they’re teaching us “new” math. He said, ” is 2+2 still 4? Yep dad. So what the hell is so new about it!
My mother was concerned back in the 1960 when that came out so I explained Elements, Unions and Intersections to her. She saw it was not a problem. New Math prepared us for programming computers 15 years before we could buy one for home.
I think the problem with the “new” math is it was geared towards those with a cognitive ability in STEM, created by those with that ability as well. I think I was in about 4th grade during the transition. Didn’t really get it at the time (compared to multiplication table memorization or doing “long” division) but years later taking classes in number theory, algebra theory, and discrete math it all made sense.
Logic is a useful part of Mathematics, no doubt. And can be fun !
But one doesn’t need a year of it. 4 weeks ought to be sufficient.
I know of what I speak.
Given P and Given (If P then Q ) …. logically produces Q.
It ain’t rocket science, although it is used in rocket science.
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2+2=1 depending on your definition of the + operator and the group.
in modulus 3 … absolutely.
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10 + 10 = 100
11 + 11 = 110
OK Math Majors.
We can stop with the Group Theory stuff.
Others on this site who don;t know the Math will get the impression we are crazy.
Years ago my father went to the Safeway to get some limes and lemons for a “cocktail party” later that night.
The lemons were 99 cents for 6 and the limes were also 99 cents for 6.
My Dad picked 3 of each.
You don’t want to hear the rest of the story.
LMFAO Rick! I could just picture it! My wife works in retail, she tells me some doozies about the young ones she works with.
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It doesn’t matter what your name is!
I see what you did there.
Why not give $6 and tell her to keep the change rather than dog the kid, then complain about it here.
If a person can’t do basic math they will either be dependent on others forever, or ripped off by others. It’s a basic need in life.
Redsetter didn’t indicate they “dogged the kid” at all, and it’s a worthy criticism “complaint” of the education system that allowed the student to reach work age without those skills.
Trust me, its even worse here in oz. I have a favourite little question to ask people in their 20,s. What is 7 x 9. Virtually none of them can answer it yet my age group (50+) knew it by heart by grade 3
Great photo of Trump!
My high school used to be one of the top public high schools in the country but not anymore. So sad to see the decline of education in our country.
Another Barry “accomplishment.”
Years ago my husband and I, both now retired teachers, taught our 20 year old daughter if she got something wrong on a test or assessment it was ok, as long as she figured out WHY she got it wrong, and that a teacher’s comments about her work were just as important as the work itself. Turns out that advice paid off in dividends, as she is incredibly well rounded, hard working, and a top-notch critical/logical thinker. She also has a love of learning. That seems to be what’s missing from education now. Hoping it can return, because without it, yikes🥹
Nice job raising your daughter! As a 60+ year old, I notice that youngsters today really struggle with anything that requires a firm decision on their part. It’s impossible to live effectively that way.
Thank you!
I have to admit she made it easy…she’s always wanted to do her best, but the quest for more knowledge and actually learning from her mistakes to not repeat them is serving her well now that she’s in college. She’s asking many why and how come questions, and I couldn’t be more proud!
My beautiful conservative wife has two sisters who are both Bernie Sanders type leftists. Recently they ganged up on her, trying to convince her that “Orange Man Bad.”
The one leftist sister told my wife that Donald Trump is SO BAD that he wants to abolish the Department of Education.
My wife said, “Good! That would improve education in America.” The two Communist sisters almost fainted.
I love my wife!
Bruce you have a smart wife! Maybe her sisters were dropped on their heads by her parents. LOL
I’m a retired teacher and I expect the same result when I tell my family and my teacher friends that I would love to see the Dept. of Education disappear.
The comments on this post reveal how many insightful, intelligent people, teachers and parents, frequent this site. Impressive knowledge.
Perhaps an education post devoted to education in specific areas such as math and statistics, history, geography, language arts, science and others could serve as a useful source of information for our new Education Secretary.
There is a lot of wisdom on this site.
Sternteacher, I couldn’t agree more!
I wish wish wish I could sit down with someone who actually wanted to know what’s really going on in classrooms and state testing/minimum requirements for graduation that are REALLY being used (shockingly low in NYS). Administrators need numbers to pass to maintain state aid, and that need trickles down to classrooms where it’s no longer acceptable to fail, because, well, SURPRISE, follow the money.
Oh I wish someone who could make a difference wanted to know!
I want to know. I just got elected to the 5th largest school district in the US, with the 2nd worst student outcomes. I know it’s a huge undertaking, and I need as much information as I can find. I’ve come across these replies and it’s like stepping on a gold mine. I’m here for it! I appreciate any information you can send my way.
Talk about gimmicks and computer learning and all that garbage….
Sorry. It doesn’t work.
I taught all levels of HS math for 40 years…private, public, international…Rigorous Math. Not watered down…
During the final 20 years of my career I slowly but methodically created 3800 flash cards. They are excellent rigorous and social. Math teachers who see the cards want them immediately. But who will pay ?
Students flash cards back and forth at each other, and the back sides of the cards are exactly the same as the front with a clear WHY that doesn’t take much effort to understand – and by itself is instructional.
My next immediate post, if it is allowed, gives the website. Take a few minutes to consider it please.
http://www.mathwizflashcards.com
Making Math Easier
Face it, the real purpose of Dept of Ed is to hand out student loans, allowing colleges to create massive bureaucracies for things like DEI while conning “students” into thinking going into debt for a “studies” degree makes sense. The so-called FAFSA seems to be its main product.
While we are looking at the Department of Education, let’s cast a side glance at the publishing industry. How have they influenced education?
There was a time when textbooks were pure and honest and helpful. Politics entered in the 90’s. Money, money, money!
Math education for many students today consists of looking at a computer screen and choosing between A, B, C, or D. Student gets two tries. How many students guess “correctly” with two tries and pass forward without ever understanding the math? At the end of the hour students close the computer, go to biology class, and repeat the guessing game.
Education? Dumbing down? Choose one.
Oh, last point for me and I’ll stop…my husband and I taught at/retired from a small, Class D, celebrated Blue Ribbon district for over 25 years, and proceeded to pull our high achieving daughter out after 8th grade to go to a private high school. Sent ripples through the district, but it had to be done after she was told, doing group work/project based learning (the then latest greatest way to teach in public schools🙄) that her standards were too high., and essentially to dial back her expectations. Our decision, a costly financial but necessary one, was made that day.
Here in Hawaii, we have a single, state-wide public school system (there are things called “districts”, but they are administrative blocks on the org chart). The big thing now is “social-emotional learning”, i.e. indoctrination. There is a state school board appointed by the Gov. They do have public meetings where you can get your 2 min of zoom or in person time while they ignore you. The HSTA (NEA union) owns most the politicians and runs things. Effectively the legislature is the actual school board (controls all money and thus policy).
Dumbing Down Education. I choose both.
Your assessment is so accurate. One of my young adult conservatives buddies got a job at one of the major scholastic publishers (the enemy, he called them). He reported how they structured the textbooks to lean hard left. Eventually he too fell very left just from living in that environment.
We must also look carefully at the State Department of Education. Moving back to this level may not solve all problems.
True story. A young woman who graduated with honors from a university that emphasized science and technology decided after several years in the business world that she had always wanted to be a teacher. She applied for a job as a math teacher. She was required by the state to have a teaching certificate.
The State Department of Education required her to take an algebra course in order to get state certification in math. The lowest level of math that she had taken in her university was Calculus II.
No one at the State Department could figure out that she probably had skill in Algebra I if she could make an A in Calculus II. Duh.
Well, this sword cuts 2 ways. And I don’t dispute the stupid bureaucrats who followed their protocol manuals….
most of them couldn’t teach their way out of a wet bag. Or math the subject requirements they gleefully impose on others.
STILL….If we required applying teachers in a short 1 hour interview and practicum to demonstrate they knew their subject, we’d be rid of half the garbage teachers out there.
I can’t believe how many Social Media posters think “your” and “you’re” are the same. Or “to” and “too” and maybe even “two” are the same.
For sure these adults went to public schools and know nothing….but know it well.
It’s racist or sexist or some other imagined phobia if you challenge them on it.
And GRAMMARLY is not the answer here.
I can tell you in Hawaii, having a state Dept of Education does nothing but give citizens no voice. In theory having state-run schools means everyone is equal. The reality here is that you have good and bad schools like any where else typically correlated with economic status (here on Oahu, the poorer west side schools Nanakuli and Waianae are not high achievers). At one time we had “English standard” schools on Oahu (through Roosevelt High) but these were shut down as racist (but a study showed the ethnic make up of the English standard schools was proportional, except Chinese ethnic students were slightly over-represented). So if you want a real education you send your kid to Punahou, Iolani (aka the Asian Punahou), or if you’re Hawaiian Kamehameha.
I hope they upset the apple cart at the state level. Thanks for your ground level report.
FTR, the Department of Education allegedly has 4,400 employees.
Dr. Sowell has wanted it gone for decades.
While acknowledging several diverse picks for his Cabinet – Tulsi, Vivek – The Hill has also noted the lack of Black appointees today.
“The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized President-elect Trump for lacking Black Cabinet or high-level administration appointees thus far.
“In the two weeks since Donald Trump was elected to a second term, he has put forth a dozen troubling nominees, yet the most alarming factor in his proposed Cabinet is that not a single candidate is Black,” said Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/4999041-sharpton-blasts-trump-for-lack-of-black-cabinet-members/
Well Cameltoe wasn’t black either, really, yet they heralded her as the new DEI Queen.
And does not Ben Carson count ?
Dr. Carson isn’t a proposed member so far.
Two things I hope they do that I’ve been saying since my teaching days:
1. Tie the money to the student. If the Ed Dept doesn’t fold up shop, make it so any funding from the Dept goes directly to parents and the parents use that money to select a school. If the kid changes school – 100% choice – the money follows the kid.
No more bureaucratic skimming. Skip directly over the states and go straight to the parents.
2. Reform the Stafford Loan program to require colleges to co-sign the loans with a 30/30/30 responsibility shared with the student and parents. Everyone should have skin in the game.
That will collapse college prices because the schools would no longer be able to afford bloated staff and pointless courses.
Anyway, if the Ed Dept gets shuttered, take the entire budget and increase the tax deduction for parents with students MASSIVELY with no income litmus test. Grants for low income people who don’t pay taxes. If you have kids, and they’re enrolled in school, they get a big dollop of cash to spend on the school program (public, private, charter, home) of the parents’ choosing.
Great idea! Is it yours?
i have kinda been saying this for years.i think i read yale or harvard has an endowment fund worth something like 60 billion dollars.if true they should be backing the loans of the students they approve to attend them.
My 5th grade Grandson often came to my house to do his homework. He was doing long division when he put his head down on the table, and said “I used to LOVE math, and now I HATE it! I know the answer, but they make us draw a box around the problem and do all these extra steps.” (Common Core) It still brings tears to my eyes as I saw the light of learning extinguished by a stupid New Age invention by Bill Gates, being forced on these students. That was the same year that “They” decided to no longer teach script to our kids. Fortunately, he moved to a private school and is now a successful college sophomore.
Great decision to pull him out!
I used math flash cards to teach my daughter multiplication, made it a game, because without the multiplication skills nothing makes sense moving forward, not division, not fractions, not decimals, nothing. Square roots are also a bone of contention for me, because any pre ed-dept learner learned there aren’t just perfect squares, but imperfect ones as well, and they exist all along the number line.
Sadly, it was in the mid 1990’s that the requirements to move to next levels in math were watered down, and, AND, calculators were allowed to be used before math facts were committed to memory. Ironically, a mini computer to compute numbers became the death of understanding computation and number relationships.
Thought I was done gripping, but the gripes just keep on coming!!!
I used to go to the grocery store and order a third of a pound of cold cuts. A real stumper for many of the staff. They understood 1/4 and 1/2 pounds but the 1/3 was like ordering in Greek.
All you have to do is read the DOE’s budget request for 2025 (currently in continuing resolution):
https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/overview/budget/budget25/summary/25summary.pdf
Don’t do after just eating; not good for your digestion or blood pressure
Told my grandkids that if they wanted a good education, go to Goodwill, Salvation Army, on line old book stores, etc. and find any old lesson books from the past such as history, etc. Study them to know the truth of our nation.
Amen!
That’s an excellent start. The states will need to pick up the ball and drive teachers unions and woke ideology in education into extinction.
YES! YES! YES! 😉
I would be thrilled to be rid of the dept of education! It has been a disaster!