Betsy DeVos: I'd be 'fine' if we could ditch the Education Department

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  1. MolonLabe2009

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    Scaling back the federal government's involvement in education would be one of the best things to happen to US education in a long time.

    I'd say the first place to start that process would be in yanking money from these so called "institutes of higher learning" that are nothing more than Leftist programming factories masquerading as Universities.
     
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    It would be amazing. Inner city schools never had a chance in this system, and that is precisely what the liberals want, dependence, not success.
     
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    The US Dept of Ed is simply not needed, and is a waste of money. Spend the money on children rather that B'crats in Washington that are over paid and under worked.
     
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    Let's think before we eliminate the Dept. of Education. How can people educate their children if there's no federal agency to oversee everything? Next thing you know people will be trying to establish neighborhood schools or home school their kids.
     
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    LOL! Now the government elitists will see what the rest of America went thru when companies downsized! We will see how they like those apples!
     
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    Yep.

    Now there ARE some states where the charter schools are doing poorly. This is true.

    However, overall they are performing much better than public schools, PARTICULARLY for minorities.

    I'd encourage everyone to look at the facts published in the CREDO report, it's fairly comprehensive.

    https://credo.stanford.edu/
     
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    Our country has one of the greatest educational systems in the world. Our students lead the globe in every metric. Shutting down the educational department would be a disaster for America.

    BTW, does anyone know how to use this site's sarcasm font?
     
  9. Think for myself

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    I bet she would. I bet she would love nothing more than to turn public education into Christian indoctrination.
     
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    Trash in, trash out but CREDO is great in making sure that the trash is amplified to a higher degree.
     
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    You mean like when 350 years before the Declaration of Independence, Harvard was a Jesuit institution of actual higher learning?

    Now one of the most disgraceful institutions in the world.
     
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    This site has a sarcasm font? If I could find it I'd set it as my default.
     
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    I agree with her. Demolish the department of indoctrination. America was far better educated before we established this government morass of evil.
     
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    Um, no.
     
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    DeVoss is just another disaster from Trump's cabinet, better described as the insane clown posse. When enough Americans march in the streets, that will change.
     
  16. Think for myself

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    What are you talking about? She was born wealthy and married wealthy. Despite he never having a single.position in any form with public education, having a billion seems to qualify one for Trump's cabinet.
     
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    So in your opinion the CREDO report is wrong?

    Please explain why.
     
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    I am with DeVos 100% on this one.

    The U.S. Department of Education has become a MASSIVE failure. It has spent Billions to only realize worse results. It has become a huge boondoggle that does not serve the children, but instead serves left wing interests. It has become an enormous bureaucracy that feeds the unions that feeds the Democratic party with tax pay dollars.

    We should shut it down for the sake of the children and try something else.
     
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    The only thing the dept of Education does that makes sense in execution is administering Pell Grants so...fire 90% of the bureaucrats and insure only the accountants and IT specialists remain to manage the program...or, move the entire dept to the IRS, folk who already manage money.
     
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    So you're happy with ignorance?

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    What will change?
     
  21. Think for myself

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    Sure, whatever that is supposed to mean.
     
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    Credo report wrong, absolutely not, they are perfectly in line with their creed but that, is the problem. They stand for just more of the same but at a much increased pace. They are not about education just a more intense indoctrination. Stamford is part of the problem, not the cure.
     
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    Pell Grants, that should be the first thing to go.

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    You don't know what it means but you agree anyway, that is just what it means.
     
  24. Think for myself

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    No, I am not sure of the straw man your earlier post posits, but I don't care enough to rebut it.
     
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    Betsy DeVos being guarded by U.S. Marshals Service. “The last Cabinet member protected by marshals was a director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.”

    So, basically, taking on the Education Cartel is as dangerous as taking on the Drug Cartels?

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/257726/
     

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