President Donald Trump is anticipated to sign an executive order beginning a process to remove the federal Dept of Education today. President Trump will sign an executive order and take questions from the press beginning at 4:00pm ET. Livestream Links Below:
UPDATE: Video and Executive Order Added
EXECUTIVE ORDER – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to enable parents, teachers, and communities to best ensure student success, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Our Nation’s bright future relies on empowered families, engaged communities, and excellent educational opportunities for every child. Unfortunately, the experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars — and the unaccountable bureaucracy those programs and dollars support — has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our families.
Taxpayers spent around $200 billion at the Federal level on schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, on top of the more than $60 billion they spend annually on Federal school funding. This money is largely distributed by one of the newest Cabinet agencies, the Department of Education, which has existed for less than one fifth of our Nation’s history. The Congress created the Department of Education in 1979 at the urging of President Jimmy Carter, who received a first-ever Presidential endorsement from the country’s largest teachers’ union shortly after pledging to the union his support for a separate Department of Education. Since then, the Department of Education has entrenched the education bureaucracy and sought to convince America that Federal control over education is beneficial. While the Department of Education does not educate anyone, it maintains a public relations office that includes over 80 staffers at a cost of more than $10 million per year.
Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them. Today, American reading and math scores are near historical lows. This year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that 70 percent of 8th graders were below proficient in reading, and 72 percent were below proficient in math. The Federal education bureaucracy is not working.
Closure of the Department of Education would drastically improve program implementation in higher education. The Department of Education currently manages a student loan debt portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion. This means the Federal student aid program is roughly the size of one of the Nation’s largest banks, Wells Fargo. But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid. The Department of Education is not a bank, and it must return bank functions to an entity equipped to serve America’s students.
Ultimately, the Department of Education’s main functions can, and should, be returned to the States.
Sec. 2. Closing the Department of Education and Returning Authority to the States. (a) The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.
(b) Consistent with the Department of Education’s authorities, the Secretary of Education shall ensure that the allocation of any Federal Department of Education funds is subject to rigorous compliance with Federal law and Administration policy, including the requirement that any program or activity receiving Federal assistance terminate illegal discrimination obscured under the label “diversity, equity, and inclusion” or similar terms and programs promoting gender ideology.
Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.” (link)
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Flood the Zone! It is the only way to defeat the Echo Chamber.
Exactly
“Build Back Echo” – Jomoment
In this moment.
Hold on I think I’m having a moment!
Never mind it was nothing, probably just gas.
<Flood the Zone!.>
We can do this…
I Noah guy 🙂
We should all get on our knees and thank Almighty God for this time and decision. Congress, please codify this and make Logic mandatory in the curriculum along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, as it is required to earn a law degree. Praise God. Logic will give us more logical election results in the future. So far, so good, but we have the future to see what happens. Pray. It works.
A+
10th Amendment
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Thats all we need to remember…
Buh-bye Department of Education.
and hopefully many more to be washed down the drain!
Amen!!!
By His hand may it come to pass 🙏🏻
EPA/ATF ?
Both of these obnoxious agencies are high on the axe list!
Not just defunding, but eliminating completely.
Check out this clip of lunatic Randi Weingarten, head of teacher’s union. This is who President Trump is rescuing our children from.
Her speech is compared to the famous “Dwight Schrute Nazi speech from the TV show “Office”:
President Donald J. Trump has become, as Paine said of Panics, a ‘touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. They have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world.’
Without even trying.
Oh Lord, that is coming true faster than most can imagine.
Aslan is on the move.
Love her!!
(This lovely Aussie lass, not Randi Weingarten who is clearly nuts. By the way, MM, the teachers’ union in Britain is called the National Union of Teachers…or NUTS. Which fits them.)
Rita is an absolute doll, and I saw her first!
Best solution to <Federal> overreach and institutional corruption. The States will have to take it further.
I am optimistic that the spirit of Jefferson lives.
YES, but who the hell is enforcing it? Who? No one that’s who.
How long will it take before some Judge says President Trump can’t do that?
I’d say a minute or so after he’s done.
The commies are already judge shopping
Yep
Like Joe’s pardons, they should just issue a pre-emptive injuction and save us all the time.
They are no longer shopping. The selection was made along time ago and is locked and loaded.
Let me think…somebody with dual citizenship, appointed by clintonosamabiden, and a haaarvaard grad…
With luck, the shoppers will soon be bankrupt!
They don’t need to look very hard.
You think they’ll wait till he’s done?
The ink won’t be dry….
Yup
No doubt Boasberg has an injunction already written haha
I just read…”he is out of the country” …. no more from him..
Did you happen to read anything mentioning an extradition treaty?
Crrated by EO, it can be disbanded by EO, but sure, they WILL fight it, count on it.
No diubt that crazy hag Head of the teachers union will be ranting, and talking heads will be crying, and Judges will be issueing TRO’s,..
And thats great!
It just adds one more thing to the list of horrible things the idiots support: they want to Keep America Stupid.
Along with being pro-war, pro-illegal alien terrorists running lose in our country, pro-lopping off childrens parts, pro-having mentally challenged people as air traffic controllers,..etc.
I believe the Un education dept. was created by congress, so PDJT cannot eliminate it completely. He can decimate it effectively neutering it.
Which is exactly what he is doing. Next move the Dept of Ed to Buffalo New York so they can shovel snow all winter long.
There are plenty of nooks and crannies that could use hand clearing along some of the streets now.
New “traffic calming” medians jutting out into the original street to comply with some UN 2020 or UN 2030 global initiative. 😡
Speed bumps installed on residential streets are wrecking havoc on very heavy fire trucks, as well as increasing response times. Brilliant.
https://www.buffalony.gov/1064/Slow-Streets-Program
https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/design/dqab/hdm/chapter-25
https://www.dot.ny.gov/programs/repository/Traffic-calming-initiative-description.txt
International Falls MN would be my vote, or Minot ND.
My understanding is it was created by President Carter in the mid 70s.
Do you have a link to the EO establishing the Dept. of Education? Likewise the EO establishing USAID?
Leo, I see what you are doing here- it’s pretty lame but here you go, first the Dept. of Ed, and then USAID….
The U.S. Department of Education was initially established through the Department of Education Organization Act, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, as Public Law 96-88. This was a legislative act, not an executive order, and you can access the full text here: Public Law 96-88. Later, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13355 on August 27, 2004, which amended earlier executive orders to enhance the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, linking it to the Department of Education’s framework. While this didn’t create the Department, it adjusted related advisory roles. You can read EO 13355 here: Executive Order 13355.
To clarify your question, it seems you might be asking about a hypothetical or recent Executive Order (EO) from President Donald Trump affecting the Department of Education, possibly tied to current events as of March 21, 2025. Based on available data and context, Trump signed an EO on March 20, 2025, aiming to dismantle the Department of Education, though full elimination requires congressional approval. Since I don’t have the exact text of this EO, I’ll base the response on reported details and historical precedent, connecting it to Bush’s EO where relevant.
The 1979 act created the Department, while Bush’s EO 13355 refined its advisory structure. Trump’s March 20, 2025, EO seeks to reverse this by initiating the Department’s closure, shifting education back to states. Here’s how it ties together and what it changes:
Below are the key changes attributed to Trump’s EO based on current reports:
President John F. Kennedy created the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Executive Order 10973, signed on November 3, 1961. This EO, based on the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law 87-195), established USAID to consolidate and administer U.S. foreign economic assistance programs, aiming to counter Soviet influence during the Cold War and promote development abroad. The full text of EO 10973 can be found here: Executive Order 10973. Unlike the Department of Education, which was legislatively created, USAID’s origin lies in this executive action, though its status was later solidified by Congress in 1998.
Grok is an amazing tool LEO.
COMPS-726.pdf
Congress created the DOE in 1979 under Carter. It has a Cabinet level Secretetary in the executive branch.
It’s critical Trump gets Congress to pass legislation to solidify as many of these accomplishments as possible before Mid Terms.
Its’ best to get the queasy, corrupt and incompetent Republicans and the sketchy Speaker on record if they oppose and block legislation solidifying Trumps’ EOs before the election.
This way voters encouraged by Trumps’ lead dog actions can replace as many Uniparty members as possible.
Never trust Republicans in Congress, they are bought off like ugly but expensive prostitutes the same as their Democrat mentors are.
Not a problem! The Dems have a few well used “auto-pen devices” not being used right now!
Anything about the Hindu Kush…?
I wonder if his authority is limited to US territory…or does it extend worldwide, or perhaps some portion of the local universe
If they don’t some marxist teacher may dupe a student to demand justice.
“Somehow, this has become routine.”
While a bit off-topic and although BHO truly rubs me the wrong way, I watched your short in its entirety. And I can tell you that I support states holding the parents and legal guardians criminally liable. At least for this time and season we find ourselves in.
Read this!!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/revealed-chief-justice-john-roberts-caught-secretive-invite/
Looks like he’s found a loose thread on the SCOTUS sweater…
The password is “Fidelio”
This is one of the most important changes I think President Trump will make. Thank you God, for this man at this time. Millions of us did great without a federal department of education interfering in what is clearly a State’s Right.
Funny thing about liberals. Their mashing of teeth simultaneously eliminates the words “state’s rights” from their vocabulary.
Wholeheartedly agree! If they weren’t reeling before, I think this will prove to be a knockout blow.
Children are indeed our most precious resource. Anybody that doesn’t think so is a selfish moron.
I have employees who have to pull out the calculator on their phone to figure a round up to the next dollar. Not kidding.
They marvel that I can do rows of 3 digit math in my head. Today one asked how in the world I can do that?
I said because I paid attention and passed the fourth grade.
Education today is a crime.
My 23 y/o grand daughter thinks I’m a ‘genius’ when I do math in my head..🙃
Watch a kid try to make change without using the cash register’s calculation.
Remember when an item was $4.76, you’d give the cashier a five dollar bill and a penny?
And they automatically gave you your change–a quarter.
That exchange totally blows the mind of a kid working a cash register today.
That’s after they ring up a bunch of radishes and ask you, “What are these called? The bar code tag must have fallen off”
I pretty much shut down a McDonalds when the cost was $16.03 and I gave them $21.03. She kept giving me the $1 bill back.
All so true and disheartening. My 88 yr old neighbor, a retired physician, encountered a young women in her 20’s at the check in desk at his gym, she did not know how to write!! She told him she did not know how to write her own name!!!!! So much work to be done, but I know with the help of God we can do it! Keep the faith and pray without ceasing!
Mrs Weaver, 4th grade. Same thing. She also made all of us Delta critters learn the king’s english.
I was hoping that RR would get rid of the Dept. of Education.
Better late than never.
D of Ed has a budget exceeding $265 billion! I just wish Carter had lived long enough to see this day.
Not me. Good riddance. He might have been a nice guy, but not only was he a lousy president but he wouldn’t keep to himself after leaving office either.
Carter was not a “nice guy.” He worked to sabotage our country after his defeat in 1980, and, like herpes, just refused to go away.
Nah- seeing the return of the Panama Canal was my best hope for him.
Yes. Aren’t some of us lucky to finish school before 1979. Adios DOE.
Get rid of Common Core.
Bring back phonics.
Yes Betsy! 1000%
So desperately needed, Amen
We’re trying to introduce school choice here in Texas, mouse. Much to my shock there is great negative feeling about it.
I heard President Trump hailing our schools , but in truth Texas is 38th in academic achievement and 43rd lowest on spending. The Texas house is led by a RINO who has done all he can to block school choice. We will see what happens now that President Trump has freed children from the clutches of progressive teachers, their unions, and their insidious ideologies.
Texas used to have some of the strictest
and the best schools in the Country.
Military brat here. After attending Junior High
and freshman year in Texas school and then
being transferred to DC area-it was not only an
extreme cultural shock combined with drama of
being a freshman-again – 😳due to how grades
were structured-Texas High School was 9-12
vs new school 10-12….the best news was that I
had enough credits that I only had to go to
school for half a day until I graduated, and most
of those classes were elective classes!
My Texas education was that far advanced!👏👏
My first day—-girls were wearing shorts, some
of the boys hair was longer than mine…and there
was a designated smoking area and rules for leaving
the grounds for lunch. Culture shock 😳
Texas schools were a lot better academically than
the liberal school in the East.
I hope it gets back to what it once was!
I see not only was Abbott there for the signing but our Lt Governor Dan Patrick as well. RINOs in the House are gumming up the works…as always.
I first read that as Commie Core.
Same same 😂
Bring back cursive writing.
Absolutely. Cursive writing stimulates the mind. Same with good music.
Kids who didn’t learn cursive are left behind.
Too bad. Just part of the government’s experiment on your kids.
Yes to both. Especially good music.
Notice how ugly everything is, from the arts to architecture and music The markers of a steadily declining civilization. Beauty is anathema to the philistines who have done so much damage to this country.
The late Professor Sir Roger Scruton wrote…
“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”
Which is true and I believe a huge part of why we find ourselves where we are now.
Ah, but is the culture declining, or is it being deformed by outside forces?
Brutalism isn’t just for architecture.
It was always intended to crush our souls and make them smaller.
Declining and deformed because of outside forces in my view, Cariad.
No, not just architecture, though it is more insidious because people have to look at it or live in it day in and day out.
One can choose to not listen to music or look at a painting or art in any form.
But one cannot escape architecture…unless living in the wild amongst all the beauty which God Himself created is an option. Which for most it isn’t.
Dr Theodore Dalrymple, a now retired prison psychologist and superb essayist, has some wonderful writings on this subject which, alas, I cannot find, referencing post WWII architecture in Britain for living accommodation and what it did to the people who had no choice but to live in the hideously designed, ill built boxes.
Soul crushing is right.
Correction: Dr Dalrymple is a psychiatrist, not psychologist.
He lives in France now, is in ill health, and has written extensively about his experiences as a Brit living in the French countryside. One of only two sane psychiatrists I have ever been familiar with.
I hasten to add of those two, one socially and the other Dr Dalrymple 😎
Ah yes. That Hideous Strength, by CS Lewis.
Maybe not as we might need it as a secret code if we don’t succeed in turning the country around this term.
Ever the optimist, but gosh I like the way you think 🙂
Some school districts have already brought it back. Some study showed that learning cursive had an important improvement in processing information.
It’s back in Idaho schools! Although, I homeschooled all my kids and they learned cursive in 3rd grade. Received full ride scholarships to college!
Just posted comment about this very thing, and the repercussions that result. These children who are now young adults cannot write their own names, much less write!! What an absolute travesty!!!
and palmer method!
“and palmer method!”
My mother produced vast quantities of cards and notes in that beautiful handwriting during her very long life. We have kept even her old grocery lists among many other items.
Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly was an ardent proponent of phonics. I asked her about it at a public debate she had with a certain attorney years ago.
Oh I’ll bet that was something to listen to. Phyllis was a treasure, much mocked. We surely could use more of her passion now, Sepp.
My younger daughter with her 3+1 (triplets and their sister) had them all reading well before kindergarten. She’d send photos of her crew in a small upstairs room which she had decorated as a small forest, the door to it with a full length mirror attached, as if it were a the door to CS Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”. They could never get in that room fast enough; and then they would spend hours reading.
TV out…Books and all the adventures they offered?
In!!
“There is no frigate like a book.”
Love the illusion that inspires.
I was blessed that my mother was a reader, and every month after she was finished with it, I would read Reader’s Digest from cover to cover. To this day, I still remember some of those abbreviated stories. The teachers were all astonished that I was reading at a level several grades above my own, and I remember thinking, “Doesn’t everyone?”
Thank you Mom, for passing that gene on to me, and after more than a half century it continues strongly to this day.
One of my favorite quotes of all time is from Ann Landers, who said, “Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.”
What a wise treasure your mother was, Jeff.
So much has changed since then, and not in a good way. For one critical thing, for most today with small children, two incomes are necessary to support a family, In many instances single parent households have just one….moms not present through necessity during those precious early years.
If you were to ask your question today, I am sorry to say the answer would be “No.”
The wonderful escapes which books offer, the inaccessible opportunity for a child who can’t read to let his imagination run wild.
That’s a tragedy.
A national tragedy of the highest order.
On the way to fixing it I pray 🙏🏻
The worst part is that this dumbing down of America has been intentionally inflicted by the unions, with the cheerful cooperation of their bought and paid for pets in Congress and elsewhere. The concept of public sector unions is abhorrent to me and in fact I think that they should be outlawed. I was a young adult at the time, but I remember the national attention drawn to Time Magazine’s “Why Can’t Johnny Read.” And now the problem is generational, with the “Johnnies” of then now teaching the younger generations, and thus the problem is compounded. I’ve long maintained that if you keep raising generations of dumb Americans, in due course you will have a dumb America. And it seems that we are at or very near that point.
Sigh. I could go on for pages; this may be my number one issue, but alas I will spare everybody my rant and step off the soapbox. Thank you all for listening.
I agree, Jeff. There are lost generations because standards were allowed to become lower year by year. Education or what passed for it was calibrated to the lowest common denominator. Less and less was expected from students, and eventuallly it was considered “unfair” to encourage them to excel.
Such a philosophy, if one could call it that, is I believe cruel because it deprives young people of the intense pleasure in knowing what it is to succeed and the desire to continue to do so.
Nothing to pull them up. No aspirations, only the same treadmill of low expectations.
Who wouldn’t be beaten down by that sort of day to day educational experience?
Hoping a new day will dawn.
I remember visiting my college roommate and her Stanford educated husband and there was NOTHING to read in their house…not even a newspaper. And, after many decades, it remained the same…only religious stuff after she became a follower.
My parents were basically uneducated…M y mother got her GED when she around 60 years, having married before graduating high school. But, even though we lived in very rural farm country, no library within 15 miles, we had lots of reading materials. We even got a set of encyclopedias before getting a TV IN 1959.
Even today, I maybe watch TV an hour a day, preferring to read. Thank you, Mom and Dad!
I had forgotten about that. Yes, encyclopedias! Pop bought not one, but two sets of encyclopedias for me and my two brothers, and there’s no doubt that I read every single page of every single volume. I also remember this huge heirloom quality dictionary that must have been almost a foot thick, and was so heavy that I could barely pick it up. It had its own display stand that was placed in the family room, on the hearth near the fireplace.
Funny that you mention an “heirloom” quality dictionary. I was once in the Public Library of NYC and found a dictionary about 2 feet thick. It was the only dictionary the had the word CWM explained. It was a word my Mother used in a Scrabble game (she averaged about 400 per game) and I was miffed at her use, saying there was no vowel. As it tums out, W was a vowel back in the day. When asked what are the vowels in English; they are A, I, O, U and sometimes Y and W. It took me 30 years to find a word that used W as a vowel and I found it in a heritage dictionary.
I’ve found that in most cases truly educated homes have many, many books.
We couldn’t stop our son from reading. He would even read the coupons my wife clipped! I was so afraid he might become a lawyer 🙄
Fortune stepped in with his love of airplanes, so he’s now an accomplished aircraft mechanic! That kid can take anything apart and fix it!
Hahahahaaaa!!!
Fortune indeed. He found his passion and is lucky enough to be able to make a living from it. Something which so many never find. Just excellent.
Our son followed a similar route. Except he had no interest in anything in particular; and so while we didn’t despair, there were times when a little angst crept in for his future. After getting a useless degree, during a 5 year stint in the Navy as an airplane mechanic, fortune tapped him on the shoulder also. He had developed a passion for all things electrical and mechanical.
Today he is an industrial HVAC expert, moving up the ladder. We never saw that coming.
Our grandson taught himself to read at three. Colour us astounded as we’d be driving with him in his car seat reading out the various huge business signs which dotted the road. He’s finishing his freshman year at uni now, and we haven’t figured it out yet.
Reading is indeed fundamental
Success or failure depends on being able to read.
I never think about how important it is without remembering Ben Carson’s then (but no more) illiterate mother making her boys read and write book reports… which she pretended to read herself and mark.
She knew…
Powerful stuff right there, Betsy. So very true.
Think if she hadn’t done, Alleycat.
All his success stemmed first from her. The first to successfully separate conjoined at the head twins.
Truly powerful.
Proof of God always nudging, of always being at work because HE knew. 🙏❤️
So so SO true!!!
Which is the most amazing thing to realize. Just as He knew Donald John Trump would one day be president. It fills me with awe 🙏🏻
I cannot imagine not being in the middle
of a book-or two!
Everyone who knows me will agree—
and I admit…..I am a bookaholic.
At 10 years old, when I would finish a
book and nothing to read, I would raid
my Mom’s stash in her closet. 😳 😳
Nothing horribly risqué, but definitely not…
age appropriate.😁
A favorite saying of mine—
Kindle is one of my best friends!
I could have worse addictions. 😁🤷♀️
I read Dr Carsons book, and that is when
I said that if ever ran for President that I
would vote for him. I am still a big fan of his!
His mother may have had only a minimum
of education, but she was very wise in how
she brought up her children.
I had a dear friend on Wales who was a police constable. Books were his life as they are yours, gypsy. He always had three or four on the go. When his birthday or Christmas came, he always asked for book vouchers, as they were called there, so he could add to his library which was massive.
He was always passed over for promotion even though he passed all the exams. I think the reason was that he was so well read and intelligent, he frightened those who were not.
I was actually applauding the Harry Potter
books.
To see so many youngsters look forward to
reading each new book that came out gave me
a big smile….and hope that they would continue
reading.
I believe we need authors that write books that
younger generations will enjoy reading.
My library has a story time with children that
is pretty well attended. …and minus the drag queens 🤢
I see those story times as a win win. Mom gets a break,
little ones learn about books.
Great image of the Lion Witch and Wardrobe. Glad to know you are a CSLewis fan.
Speaks volumes.
Huge fan, taspok. And we owe his friend JRR Tolkien much thanks I think for his part in helping to reconnect Mr Lewis to his Christianity which was the source of his writings.
So was my mother in 1954. By the time my (2-year older) sister and I each entered first grade, we were reading at mid-year 3rd grade level, according to the school teachers where we attended elementary public school in Dayton OH.
Turns out the teachers thought my sister was simply an anomaly, but when I came into the first grade two years later and was reading equally as advanced as my sister had, they called my mother into a conference to ask what method she was using to prep her kids for school. “Phonetics” was Mom’s reply, and she later told us that she was somewhat surprised because it was the only method she knew from her own childhood.
While our children were in school we hosted students from Chile, Spain, Mexico and Peru.
All of these students were 1+ years ahead of the students in our private, prep school. Top 10 in the US.
I hated phonics in grade school but looking back that, and arithmetic flash cards, were the most valuable things I got from elementary school.
GB, I bet your Mom read to you and your sister quite a bit?
With our daughters, my ex and I both gave great emphasis to sitting and reading for hours up on hours with our daughters.
By 3, our first born had a vocabulary that startled strangers. Also, since Mom spoke French, she was also bilingual at an early age.
We did not necessarily utilize a specific strategy, we simply instilled a love for reading and story telling and the girls learned at a relatively early age, certainly earlier than I had as a child.
As to the question of “Phonetics” I am consciously using phonetic strategies to try to teach myself spoken Russian (with a lot of help from someone special). While I know that it is probably best to learn the Cyrillic alphabet as a introduction to the language, as a practical matter, it is a barrier that I am not prepared to take on at present.
Rather, since I am focused on learning the spoken language, I use phonetics to spell out the sounds of the sounds of the Cyrillic letters into English.
Dobre vecher or Kind Evening!
Chris – yep. She read to us a lot but then we quickly took over b/c she & Dad handed down a load of children’s books that they had both been given as children and read many times. I learned to read on basic primer books first, but quickly advanced to books like Wind in the Willows, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Madeline, Peter Pan & the Lost Boys, Treasure Island, Black Beauty, Tom Swift Adventures, the Hardy Boys mysteries, Tarzan, etc etc etc.
Hardy Boys! I saved some of those and just took what was left out of box of stored books and put them on the bookshelf in my basement the other day!
Does anyone remember the SRA Reading Labratory?
Sorry, no. So I looked it up. McGraw-Hill makes it.
A nostalgic look at it:
https://bookriot.com/a-box-of-nostalgia-the-sra-reading-laboratory/
Formal website:
https://www.mheducation.com/prek-12/program/reading-laboratory-sra/MKTSP-UEC12M0.html
Amazon has it for about $1,000
Ebay has a bunch of them for various prices – $400 to $950
Looks like a good stay-at-home mom who reads to her kids and teaches them to read at the same time saves a whole lot of money… but not everyone has that good fortune..
I remember how much I enjoyed reading those cards!
“Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons” is what we used.
Teach your child to read, because the schools certainly won’t.
Sorry teachers, but if you get paid to teach kids to learn and they aren’t learning it your fault.
Sorry, Smitty, but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Spend some time in the schools and watch what teachers deal with.
Reprint the 1940s and 1950s math curriculum, too, which got us to the moon with slide rules. Which made it so everyone over 60 can count back change in their head without even thinking.
Aside: I can’t. My brain locks up when an older person gives me 43 extra cents so they can get their change back with no coins! Then they invariably get angry with ME! They, whose generation screwed me and every generation since, by thinking they — of course! — could do math education better than the already-excellent methods by which they were taught, remaking the whole system and thus pulling the ladder up behind them, get mad at us, the unwilling recipients of their failed educational experiments.
I just let them vent, we figure it out, and silently I sarcastically thank them for doing this to us. And by thank I mean curse.
Regardless, the whole textbook racket needs to be shut down. Those curricula, those math books that actually worked? They’re public domain by now. Reprint them and do a double service of making math education work again, and destroying the whole grifter textbook industry, who collude to mandate a brand new sure-to-fail experiment every single year, so they can print and sell millions of new books and materials every single year.
The lost world, Taq. Generations ruined by fashionable ideologies. Intentional of course….
Let’s hope the pendulum is on its return journey.
Copyrights for some reason lack a definitive life cycle. The more money is at play tge longer they last.
The textbooks are the follow on costs of the curriculums. HMH ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is one of several big players who dominate the curriculum and textbook industry.
My favorite past time when I go to the store is to try to beat the cash register in calculating the change.
Most days I win. Of course, the secret is my mind processes faster than most folks can type. I have always thought that the reason was because I continually exercise the greatest muscle humans possess, the brain.
Banish Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” It has played a huge role in making the last four generations hate America.
Diagramming sentences…..
I LOVED DIAGRAMMING!!! 😍
I used to, too. If I could remember how, I’d do it for fun. I always thought it would be the ultimate challenge to attempt diagramming a Karl Denninger post over at Market Ticker.
I had my little ruler to draw straight lines…the more the merrier!!
Ooooo, you’ve set yourself a challenge with Denniger there, my friend 😎
“I’d do it for fun. ”
yes, I was taught by nuns.
It’s good to try and do it again.
Do it before bedtime and it will come back.
I used to diagram sentences out of philosophy/sociology/psychology test books just to understand what they were trying to say.
nerd alert. nerd alert.🤓🤣 Me too!!!
English and grammar were my favorite courses.
Dangling participles…
Hahahahahaaa!! Mine as well, sis.
Dangling participles?
Now you’re talking!
If it dangles too long, it’s a past participle. 🤪
🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahahahhaaaaaa!!!
Good evening Betsy. English was my favorite subject as well. I am a TA for a professor of English and American Sign Language at Southeastern University in Durant, Ok. I am appalled at the student’s coming in for their first college year and their lack of knowledge for the basic foundations of English Grammar. She has to start almost from scratch with a basic workbook, which is one of the lessons I grade. She is one of the most patient and caring teachers I know and a lot, but not all, of the students show vast improvement by the end of the semester. She will even schedule “one on one” with any student that wants it.
The worst were the complex compound sentences with multiple adjective adverbs.
I should have scrolled down to these comments. I left my dangling participle comment to soon.😝😁
Premature Participles are the worst.
Lololol..
I remember doing that!
Oh, no…I hated diagramming sentences. The ‘dangling participle’ got me every time…
Don’t forget long division!
Yes. It’s sort of another geometrical language. There are secrets to unlocking our language abilities buried in old methods of learning.
That was big in Catholic school! I still find myself doing it in my head to be sure what I write is grammatically correct.
You know, Betsy, even that old series of cartoons taught more fundamentals than you get on many public schools these days 🙂
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Oh my GOSH!!!! One of the best, Grasshopper. My children loved it.
Yep, that was the basic process. Here’s the reality:
Conjunction junction, what’s your function.
You have And, But, n Or..
I now understand why grammar was always so confusing to me. This song is so intimidating. Look at all the tracks going everywhere. It’s too much to dump on a little brain.
And get rid of Bush’s “We left every child behind” program.
IMHO I think that secretly it was “We love every child’s behind.”
I taught both of my kids how to read with a phonics program. Same as what I learned.
When they each got to first grade they were reading at a 4th-5th grade level.
We were running out of books to read by the 6th grade.
It was the best thing I did with my kids. That and putting them into private school.
I did not learn phonics…fell into that period when sight reading was the program pushed. In many ways, it served me well because I, to this day, read and comprehend exceedingly fast. I was in undergrad and grad programs that required mountains of reading so it was a very good thing. However, my pronunciation is awful, and not having a solid background in phonics was a challenge when I entered a phase in life where I had to do a lot of public speaking.
Hubby was a medical professional and literally had to memorize his reading materials and to this day “lip reads”, even books for pleasure, as though he has to memorize every word.
Dedication, Smitty. You were foresighted in doing both. What a gift you were to your children
Yes. We did it in kindergarten. For me. 1964.
Same for me, though I am NOT going to spill the beans on when 😎
Well that’s easy for you because back then they hadn’t yet invented calendars….
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(Howdy Ma’am! 😻)
Bring back a whole bunch of topics. I keep a copy of the (Kentucky) Bullitt County History 1912 Eighth Grade Examination bookmarked on my computer. I would struggle to correctly answer quite a few of these questions even now at age 63. I am so impressed that Eighth graders were being taught this.
https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html
Not only could today’s college graduates not pass that 8th grade exam, but today’s teachers at HS, College and Graduate levels would be unable to grade it. The grading require the teachers to understand and interpret the student’s answers. No multiple choice, T/F questions there. A mindless generic answer-key would not do the job.
It is so interesting to see exams like this from long ago. It is similar to the ones in Britain around that time. I shall have a good read of this one…wish me luck!!
It’s amazing, he notes how much opposition there was to this department when Carter proposed it.
Some of he same organizations crying about losing it now.
It was never about the children, it was always about the Communist Conspiracy.
Furthermore, I consider that the Derp State MUST be destroyed!!
It’s always about teacher pay and benefits and how the Democommunist Party can provide them the goodies.
Those are just tools, they have their reward, the Communist Conspiracy is much greater and more ominous and ever present than most understand.
Destroying our children has been the goal for a very long time.
Braying functionaries are not what it’s actually about, believe such as they may.
Thank you Maquis! We are in the fight of a lifetime.
Yes, they’re communists who use words for cover, to hide what they’re doing.
But they still have the same narrative. As Andrew Breitbart said over a decade ago, “WAR”!
It was always about….
Build an apparatus, get… ALL THE THING$
Quite possibly this was the inspiration for Carter’s Department of Education:
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” — Vladimir Lenin
Certainly the spirit of the thing, and at the direction of the same instigators.
No. The inspiration was the low level of testing in the Mississippi (and other southern) school systems and the low level of per pupil funding for same. Carter’s reasoning was that if the Feds controlled all there would be adequate funding for schools and teaching/learning would improve. Of course it didn’t as money isn’t the real driver for how good a school system is.
The teachers are going to have to produce smarter kids for the same pay. They are in Dread Ville for the fall semester starting next year.
I listened to an interview of a member of Congress who noted that only 25% of the DOE budget goes directly to educating students. No wonder this is a failed agency.
A lot of it goes to things such as funding for Ed.D. dissertations on whether crayons should be introduced in 1st grade or in 2nd grade.
First and 2nd Graders should use the same crayons that are used for Ed.D. dissertations.
see also former 1st ‘Lady’.
Or Bulletin Boards 101. Introductory course on how to make a professional looking accent fr your classroom.
Or Flutophone 101 classes for El Ed majors.
I’d bet a nice lunch it wasn’t even THAT much 🙂
More than half of all public school employees nationwide are NOT teachers. (I think closer to 60% are not.)
Classroom teaching is almost an afterthought. It’s just something they have to make an appearance of doing so they can justify asking for more and more budget every year.
Nationwide injunction in 5…4…3…
Who thought of the kids signing their own cc of the EO!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Brilliant!
I thought that was sweet.
I agree!
Brilliant!
Problem is, now states will continue common core and DEI
And here in Minnesota with little timmy running the show, all I can do is shake my head imagining how much worse things will get.
Now its up to the PEOPLE, as in “We, the PEOPLE” to take control of their school boards, make school principles run for office, voted on by the parents, (for Public Schools) and pass Statewide School Choice, so that parents can send their kids to public, charter, private, parochial or home school, and the State $ goes with the student.
A couple with 3 kids, getting $7,000-$10,000 per kid, to home school could perhaps afford to have one parent stay home, and this would even encourage having more children?
Brilliant!
Now let’s do away with school tax on real estate for retirees and businesses. Retirees can’t afford it and businesses are being abused by double jeopardy because they are already paying school taxes on their personal homes. That’s not right.
Exactly this! Maybe we all need to tell stories of the good ol days when local school boards ran local schools with local money.
We had decent safe buildings, all the necessary core classes including algebra II and Trig., sports, music, shop classes, languages…
and happy, well adjusted, well educated children.
We live out here in West Texas. Granted, our kids already went through the public school system, went to fabulous colleges, and all have great careers.
Hard PASS on having communities “taking over” their schools. A lot of these folks are poorly educated, mean-spirited, and want to send us back to the 1800s. They are afraid of progress.
That’s true. But that’s the way our system is supposed to work.
Some will, and will suffer a mass exodus as people vote with their feet, and leave.
And hopefully they will have to fund it themselves
That is a war that will have to be fought at a local level. It is inevitable that, as the power structure in DC is destroyed, power will flow back to the states where greedy hands will grab it, and legislators will try to build their own kingdoms in their own states. It will be up to the people of that state to deconstruct those strongholds. Georgia has some high handed legislators who walk all over the citizens and do what they want. They are going to have to be retop. The lesson that all authority was delegated by God to the people and when the people vote, they delegate a certain amount of that authority to their legislators. That does not mean that the legislatures have free reign.
Some states. Others will give a sigh of relief and teach what they really wanted to teach all along.
In the immortal words of Ron Swanson:
“Slash it! Slash it! Slash it!”
Click to enlarge:
Too bad he’s a leftist real life
great news !
Promises made,…promises KEPT.
Last week I had the chance to hear Christopher Bonn discuss the state of education in the US.
By returning it to the states it reduces the stranglehold the producers of the curriculums and textbooks have. The curriculum issue never seems to be discussed. We are told to ‘look, over there!’ and debate endlessly the testing.
Curriculums are routinely changed and schools spend $500 to $1,500 PER STUDENT just for the everchanging curriculum. It is as if reading and math changes from year to year. But it does not.
And after the failures begin to occur, the marketers of the curriculums have another level of curriculum to address the failures. For a fee of course.
In cities like Baltimore, the schools somehow lack the funds to acquire the emergency curriculum and the kids fail. This is repeated in every failing school district.
And the teachers are worn down by the amount of extraneous paperwork required by the Department of Education to obtain the funding they do get. If a teacher actually teaches for 15 minutes of a 50 minute class, what should we expect to happen?
The ending of the Department of Education will mark the beginning of the renewal of the education of children.
The textbooks are a money grab! The author changes one math problem and school buys the new revised textbook. Same goes for the universities!!
I was just going to say this. After seeing what DOGE has done we all know that everyone is in on the “textbook grift”.
When I was in school there was always a scrum over what was in Texas textbooks.
Whatever was decided in Texas set the way all textbooks would be.
The teacher said it was because Texas bought the most books.
“The teacher said it was because Texas bought the most books.”
Why? Does does the State of Texas have the most students?
At one time I believe so. I am also in Texas and I remember always hearing that as well. I do think that at one point California started being the state that seemed to determine what all the others taught.
No more Bill Ayers authored propaganda and mind bending text books for our youth!
Absolutely right. See my comment above about this racket.
Reprint the 1950s math books. They worked better than anything since, and they’re public domain.
Put these grifters out of business once and for all.
A teacher was badly beaten by two stdents in Florida just recently. It isn’t just a tiring job anymore.
We need an American CECOT.
The McGuffey Reader was a foundational text for more than 50 years.
https://www.happyhomeschoolmom.com/mcguffeys-eclectic-readers-free-pdf-downloads/
https://schoolwithmom.com/how-to-use-mcguffey-readers/
Education and knowledge are built upon a foundation of reading, writing, math, science, and philosophy. So, add in the Bible.
The larger states with more money to spend on statewide distribution of the same books, determines what is published. Used to be big fights about it, now not so much is discussed.
By kicking these hot button issues of the left and putting them back into the control of the States, he is totally disarming the left from future Presidential election issues. Brilliant
While I agree with restructuring, reducing or eliminating a lot of the Federal Agencies that Trump’s administration has been doing in an effort to get rid of the boated bureaucratic waste, I think the cutting on some of these agencies needs to be done with a hammer and chisel and not a chainsaw. Case in point my wife who is an educator in a nearby small, rural, Title 1 low income public school district outside the East Texas city we live in had her position eliminated 3 weeks ago because the small federal grant that was obtained by her district last year was cut off. This grant funded her and several other Master Teacher Specialists who were brought on in an attempt to turn the K-12 campuses around and bring them up from an “F” rating. This grant also funded bringing in a specialized curriculum from a private company that was being implemented as an alternative to the standard TEA curriculum. Her district was one of 2 dozen or so similar districts across the state that qualified where this method was being piloted. And when I say grant, I don’t mean a ridiculous multi million dollar grant, but a $900k grant to cover this, with 70% of that allocated to the specialized curriculum. They have managed to bring the campuses up from F ratings to B ratings in just this one school year using this approach, which is a remarkable task. Yes my wife’s salary will be paid out through July as is every public educators salary who signs a contract, and yes my wife can find another job in public education in another district seeing as how there is a massive shortage of teachers, however, the level of measurable success shown by this approach had ignited a passion for teaching I hadn’t seen in my wife in 20 years. Seeing the actual real time growth in the students test scores etc. in such a short time frame was unbelievable in addition to the teachers she was coaching actually wanting to teach and not just punch a time clock while passing students through the system even if they were below level for their age/grade. At any rate, not here to bitch or complain, but possibly bring a slightly different perspective that these cuts/reductions could possibly be audited in a more fine tuned detailed way so as to see if there was actually any positive benefit from whatever federal money was doled out and if there was a solid return on the funding given. BTW, just so everyone knows and before I get hammered with any comments, yes we are major Trump supporters and have been since day one in 2016, and I have been a long time CTH reader, fan and comment poster.
Look, no one is going to bash you. LOL, although who knows.
It is the government heavy, union heavy money laundering that this has become. At the state level too, without the DOE.
The problem is, at least in the 2 states where I’ve lived, the money goes to retirement and administration.
Not the kids.
This just gets gets rid of a gigantic bloated federal agency. That’s all.
The problems persist. Hopefully federal grant money will still be available without the DOE. I could potentially. see how it could mean more grant money. Kids are not learning and speicial ed is woefully underfunded, as well as other things such as your wife position.
And yet you post one single huge paragraph that is almost impossible to read 🙂
Look down at your keyboard. See the “return” key. Hit is once in a while 🙂
What can I say, my wife’s the educator while I’m just an oil/gas landman out in the field doing Tommy Norris shit and rarely in an office using a keyboard.
The better we do the more dramatic they become. – 47
-Education Department Axes $600 Million In ‘Social Justice Activism’ Grants
“The Department of Education announced it has cut $600 million worth of grants for teacher training programs.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114140349109974410
I’m sure you are a President Trump supporter, Big Earl. No one would doubt your word.
And the things your wife has done in a system that is bankrupt of most teaching of any kind is stellar. Every time I hear of a teacher who actually teaches and does a great job with their students my heart rejoices. Please tell her she has a huge fan in an old lady from northern Minnesota.
But as a President Trump supporter and long time CTH reader you must know that our President has a huge job to do and a very short time to do it all in.
If he has to use a hammer and chisel to cut down the all the dead wood in the swamp — and not a chainsaw — the dead wood may end up winning.
I, like most other Treepers, hope and pray that your wife finds a wonderful job that fulfills all her dreams, pays her the high salary she should be making, and gives the children she teaches a world of opportunities from all she’s instilled in them.
“……….her position eliminated 3 weeks ago because the small federal grant that was obtained by her district last year was cut off.”
Where does this money from a federal grant come from?
It’s my belief that by eliminating money coming from the federal government, which must first be gathered from the state, the increase in efficiency by keeping the money in state would allow for more of the tax dollars to go directly to the intended use, e.g., your wife’s position.
I agree. I just wonder if this is bureaucrats taking money away from so they can beat the Orange Man bad drum- hoping for failure. Usually grant obligations are available for time limits and can’t be used for something else.
“They have managed to bring the campuses up from F ratings to B ratings in just this one school year.” That is a remarkable achievement and definitely a “solid return on the funding…”. In total agreement as to the fine-tuning approach.
Understood. However, if it is a good program, or worth a trial grant, the state can fund it. If successful …then he state can implement it statewide. Grants are never intended to be permanent.
I have little doubt that if she was as successful as you describe (and I have no reason to doubt you), your wife and the methods she uses will find their way into state curriculums in more than one state. She and those who agree with and also use her methods must all band together and develop a voice – along with children who’ve been “saved” by those methods and their parents. They don’t need federal funding; they need to be made part of – and probably a dominant factor – in state curriculums.
I agree, as with most cuts it isn’t always fair but the pendulum seems to swing back and worthwhile efforts do get funded again when those who control the funds see the benefits. It’s discouraging when honest efforts are thrown out with the trash, so to speak, but usually it turns out okay in the end. This is where parental input comes in.
His wife and the other good teachers should band together and open a Charter School.
Yes, but only if they have significant backing from influential people in the state. Opening new charter schools can be a difficult political challenge since they ARE publicly funded, but they compete with the public schools and the teacher unions, who are already well-entrenched into the DemocRat Party.
I am curious to know how much of that $900,000 actually trickled down to teacher salaries. Looks like almost $300,000 was taken right off the top. Federal grants that make their way through state public school systems make a lot of twists and turns before getting to the actual schools.
The remaining $270k was used to fund 4 master teacher salaries at $67.5k/yr each to roll out and coach the teachers at each campus on implementing the alternative curriculum.
With the remarkable success she and the
others were able to achieve….👏👏
Please, tell her and the others not to give up.
Find a way to help as many students as they
can!
Perhaps develop and market online classes…
Multiple viewpoints are welcome. Not everyone here is a Trump cultist.
And I share your sentiments.
No one here is a “Trump cultist.” That’s because there s no such thing as a Trump Cult.
That deliberately derogative term was ginned up by the rabid TDS-infected radical Left (Democrats) in their (failed) attempt to denigrate the millions of MAGA/Trump supporters who believe in Constitutional principles and the Bill of Rights rather than slavish obedience to marxist demagoguery.
Exactly and well said GB
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Thank you, GB.
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The OP said they were a Trump supporter, not cultist.
I bet you a nickel the root-cause problem was NOT because some federal grant got cut off.
The root-cause problem was because that school district spent all their baseline funding on other “priorities.” They didn’t hire competent, motivated teachers or hold their existing teachers accountable for their performance until/unless they got a special grant of “free” money from Uncle Sugardaddy.
THE MOST important task of that school district, actually its ONLY task, should be to educate its students. Yet they only did that when they could get special grant funding above their normal baseline. They rely on temporary money that can easily go away for doing their core mission. THAT is the problem.
That school district should be closing down and defunding everyone and everything else it spends money on first before it gets rid of its most effective teachers. The fact that this district did not is proof that throwing good money at poor administrators only wastes money, it doesn’t really solve the problem.
I found this to be very interesting in the details. Thank you.
Getting rid of the Dept. of Poor Education is a FJB big f’ing deal.
Has a Biden Judge or Obama Judge already blocked the Executive Order?
they ARE STILL FOCUSED on GETTING Their FAMILY Members, WIVES and DAUGHTERS ” their ” USAID Money !
PDJT pointed out that the #’s are worse now, than when the Dept. of Ed was created,…fact is, the #’s before it was created were pretty bad already, that was the justification for creating it in the first place.
He also pointed out how we spend more than any other country, and are at the bottom in terms of results.
Another area is in medical care, where we also spend the most, and have the worst results,..and for the same reasons..
Firstly, Fed. government involvement; we effectively have a Nationalised healthcare system, despite having private insurance.
The edicts regarding approved treatments for Covid that killed so many, came from the Federal Govt. thru Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement ’emergency’ changes.
We need to systematically pull the Federal Govt. out of “healthcare” keeping only a few core functions,..just as with the Dept. of Ed.
Jr. has his work cut out for him..
I am not sure that was the real reason
it was pushed -Bad #s.
Desegregation had just been completed prior
to the Department of Education being formed.
It was almost as if another wrench had to be
thrown into the educational system to keep
the chaos going.
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Time to start the lottery on which judge will block this first… 😜
With a daughter at an NGO underneath the primary NGO.
Yeah. What’s with corrupt judges and their daughters anyway?
Everything Woke Turns To Th!s
“As I began posting more frequently, I saw a curious trend develop: Nearly all my detractors were young, single, white, self-described Democrat women passionate about cats and dogs.
“Many supported BLM, transgender activism, and other Left-wing causes. All of them hated Donald Trump and equated him with pure evil. They also appeared to be largely unemployed, with considerable free time.”
–Mark McDonald, United States of Fear
-Daughter of Tim Walz Melts Down Over Dating Fans of Joe Rogan
https://headlineusa.com/tim-walz-daughter-joe-rogan-dating/
I say they are doing all guys a favor posting this stuff.
Sane women are hard enough to deal with lol. who needs retarded crazy in the mix too??
I don’t know, but it is really weird to me. This entire political system of wives and daughters just shouts ancient tradition system to me. They are clearly operating within some sort of very old structure. It’s very much like the children are born into this system and groomed for it, rather than it being simply as a result of opportunity.
Who’s on deck in Hawaii?
It’s about time we get rid of these useless and pathetic departments. This was carter’s sop to the teachers’ unions for assisting his 1976 election. We need to abolish a few others such as energy, EPA, to name a couple. I’m sure if I thought longer, I would come up with more.
I hope Trump has movers come in tonight to empty out the offices and send the furniture and equipment to a variety of place and warehouses, so when a lefty judge orders him to open up, the DofE employees will be sitting on the floor, with no files or equipment.
Hahaha.
Make Education Great Again!
MEGA!!!
Republican run states will excel academically. Populations will increase. So will their economies.
Democratic run states will drive their schools further into decline, doubling down on DEI, starting the second wave of mass exodus from them. The first wave being COVID.
Watch for falling real estate prices even in the most affluent suburbs of these blue states.
this is why they needed all the illegals to keep their seats in congress
I see it as the opposite. Red states are already performing worse academically than Blue states. Look it up. It’s a pretty wide gap, too.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 #BREAKING UPDATE: Legislation is now being filed to abolish the Department of Education through Congress amidst Trump’s executive order.
It’s being brought by Senator BILL CASSIDY (R-LA).
“I agree with President Trump that the Department of Education has failed its mission. Since the Department can only be shut down with Congressional approval, I will support the President’s goals by submitting legislation to accomplish this as soon as possible.”
Cont…
Ah ha! He is up for re election in 2 yr and I see he is kissing a** now. He voted to impeach President Trump first term. I loathe Cassidy and know he is not one to trust. Romney light. Even if he pulls this off he still needs to be booted in 2 yr.
Requires 60 Senators to approve. Not happening in THIS senate.
President Trump’s MAGA / America First movement has always been a state and local focused organization.
He came back up through the 50 state primaries to help us take back our country after a hard fought battle on 11/5/24.
Thank you President Trump for returning education to the states.
Promises made, promises kept.
The Constitution rules.
May God continue to bless you, your family, your supporters and the USA!
MAGA isn’t just our motto, it is our duty
js,
Good point.
The left aren’t geniuses. They are on the level of Al Capone. They mainly just lie and steal.
On the other hand, President Trump’s MAGA / America First movement has the numerical, economic, moral, intellect and armed majorities in America and the best leader President Trump.
Be alert!
Be proud!
Be positive!
Be an example!
Be on the offensive!
Be MAGA / America First!
Be there for your children and grandchildren!
Has Randi Weingarden received her pink slip?
Happy me!!
😁 😁 😁 💃 💃
Close down Department of Education!
I have been advocating for this for more
than a decade!
👏 👏 👏 👏
Finally! We The People need to demand all departments and agencies not enumerated in the Constitution be eliminated or at least severely downsized and strictly limited and secured within the President’s control.
The communists among us are going to loose their sheet over this! I suppose one could try explaining that we spend more to “educate” children and get worse results than any other developed nation, but why bother. It’s almost like they know it’s a big grift on the American taxpayer and they simply don’t care.
My grandson is sixteen and doesn’t know his own address to send his mom a valentine. It
Took him 10 minutes to address the envelope with coaching. Wrote it on the far left and tried to put the stamp on the back.
Yesterday he had to go take his SAT test!!
It’ll be a long painful future unless something changes.
I would ask if you are exaggerating, but I fear you are not!
Doesn’t the EO’s Trump sign have to be codified so the next president that comes thru with a wild hair can’t undo it? It sems unless these EOs are made permanent, they will just be valid until 2028 or the next dem/commie president comes along.
Yes, that has always been the problem. CONgress drags their feet on purpose. Maybe this issue will be different.
But since Roberts and Barrett in a recent decision called “stunning” by the dissenters voted with the left and failed to rule against an obstructionist district court by correctly ruling that national injunctions were outside their realm of control, we’re screwed.
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
Currently, district court judges have assumed the mantle of Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security and Commander-in-Chief. Each day, they change the foreign policy, economic, staffing and national security policies of the Administration. Each day the nation arises to see what the craziest unelected local federal judge has decided the policies of the government of the United States shall be. It is madness. It is lunacy. It is pure lawlessness. It is the gravest assault on democracy. It must and will end.
Mar 19, 2025
Even this isn’t being done:
So Where Are The Filings?
Karl Denninger
8 Mar 2025
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252937
Trump’s Administration has finally taken notice of Rule 65(c) when it comes to Federal Courts:
(c) Security. The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained. The United States, its officers, and its agencies are not required to give security.
This is not discretionary and the court cannot assess a “de-minimus” security amount either; it must be defensible predicated on the costs and damages that the other party may or will suffer with the evidence of same in the order itself if the injunction or TRO issues until disposition of the case and the posting of said security has to be completed before the TRO or injunction is valid.
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Thus where is Pam Bondi with immediate emergency filings against all of the existing injunctions already issued demanding that security be posted up and computed in said public filing and, if there is any delay or refusal by the judges involved to do so taking an immediate emergency appeal as far as necessary including to the Supreme Court which, given the actual language in the Rules of Civil Procedure is a slam-dunk and immediate win? No, demanding this only on a forward basis for future filings is not enough — force the movants in all the existing injunctions to either post up security or dissolve the injunctions and TROs.
Ms. Bondi was never up to the task of doing what the GOP Senate knew the deep-state/left was going to do (ie, use the courts to completely paralyze Trump II).
If they though she had the skills to successfully navigate this sort of thing, they would have never confirmed her.
I hope she can prove me completely wrong here soon, but this is getting embarrassing for Trump. If Barrett and Roberts are all-in on this, then I have no idea what Trump can do. Ignore the courts or play golf in FL for 4 years.
Is AG Blondi out of her depth???
She’s in – waay over her head.
She’s in a deep-sea submersible, heading as low as she can go.
Cue the music:
“The Deep Sea – the final frontier”
“These are the voyages of the USS Clairol.”
“Her 90-day mission: to seek out new crimes and criminal organizations… to boldly go where no AG has gone before”
Next Stop:
The Marianas Trench!
“Ensign, where are we?
If’n you look out your port porthole, captain… you’ll see we’re descending at an amazing rate”
“Yes, I see… something… oooh look!
There’s the
USS Sally Yates!
And the USS Sessions…
And… oooh!
The USS Bondo Barr!”
“Wait, there’s more: the USS James Buchanan… and – can it be! The USS Roger B. Taney!”
“Great Dred Scott!!!
We’ve reached the bottom!!!”
If higher courts refuse to follow the Constitution then Congress must act to strip them of jurisdiction, limit the scope of what they may review and dis-establish the worst of the district courts. FAFO.
No auto pen!
LIVE signing ceremony ❣️
✝️❤️🇺🇸
Sorry, but how fast is this one going to be stopped by an Obama DC judge? I guess it is just part of the process President Trump has to go through, but there has to be a better way.
Ha! Ha!
Caroline told the press to ask the President their questions at the signing.
Then, no questions allowed.🤯
This is a bomb shell and must be addressed immediately
Roberts really is a treasonous little
Pr..k
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/revealed-chief-justice-john-roberts-caught-secretive-invite/
https://home.innsofcourt.org/
Its public website.
I investigated it…they serve a lot of pizza
Fredericks was at the signing today. His follow-up report.
Republicans Have Been Saying They’d Do This for 45 Years
A historic day and gigantic blow to big government and the swamp! President @realDonaldTrump just signed an executive order to effectively dismantle and gut the Department of Education! President Trump pointed out during his remarks that the United States spends the most per student, yet has some of the worst education in the world. It’s time to fix that and put education back in the hands of the states.
https://truthsocial.com/@jfradioshow/114197034421875121
Sending responsibility for education to the States will foster the spirit of competition among the States. School choice will do the same.
Ending the Deptartment of Education get rid of another huge useless parasitic federal bureaucracy.
Teachers unions should also be defunded if they are receiving federal funds. Our daughter was on the school board in her city and it was impossible to get rid of bad teachers because of the race issue. It’s probably even worse with Alphabet agenda DEI now – hence the pierced tattooed blue hair groomers have gained a foothold in the schools.
Was it the Dept. of Education that replaced civics with social studies? I graduated from a private prep school in 1964 and never had a social studies class. Let’s defund ALL “studies” classes. MAGA!
I had civics in junior high in 1967. Get rid of “middle school” and bring back junior high. Seventh and eighth graders need to be kept away from the general population.
Wethal: I second the motion! Where did middle school come from? I went to junior high, but, I must have been about five years behind you.
Wow.
I never thought this day would ever come. Amazing. Now begins the long process of regaining our educational system.
I cut the cord well over 10 years ago, so it’s been a damn long time since I’ve watched any TV at all.
So, my grandmother is doing a stint in the nursing home for some rehab.. and guess what we’re forced to watch as we sit in the common area to visit, CNN of course..
Well lemme tell ya, it’s worse than ever.
Tonight, Erin what’s her name was telling everyone that education is controlled by the states already and therefore abolishing the Dept. of Ed. is really no big deal..
I saw something on X that had the insufferable Jessica Tarlov blowing a gasket over eliminating the DOE .
Bring back Home Ec. !
Jimmy Carter is way worse than I knew
Another mercantilism EO…
Isn’t DOE how most of these DC crooks get their “book deals”? Money funneled through DOE to publishers for their shitty textbooks or BS education directives, then turned around and offered to any buyable AOC or Snake Plisskin as “we want your story”?
This is a move that could piss off a lot of different people in DC.
Glorious!
This has been a remarkable comment section, truly a joy to read and remember.
Thank you to all,
Here’s wishimg our national discourse could apply half of the logic, wit, wisdom, techniques, and knowledge written here tonight!
Extracurricular resources
….. remember when we had the Encyclopedia Americana?
………… first published in 1829, in 1958 there were 30 volumes
……………….. the world at your fingertips
………………………. a great way to pass a summer day.
we were fortunate enough to have the World Book in the early 60s…yearly updates too.
Also parental responsobility is a must.