The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s lagging academics — a solution that could free schools from the strictures of federal influence.
Yet to some school and state officials, the plan appears to add more bureaucracy, with no clear benefit for students who struggle with math or reading.
Instead of being housed in a single agency, much of the Education Department’s work now will be spread across four other federal departments. For Donald Trump, it’s a step toward fully closing the department and giving states more power over schooling. Yet many states say it will complicate their role as intermediaries between local schools and the federal government.
2+2=4 in every state in the country. AEIOU and sometimes Y are the vowels in every state in this country. We don’t need 50 states providing 50 different interpretations of basic educational facts.
The educational curriculum in this country should be organized and managed by the Federal government, and the states’ only job should be to implement it. All Americans should receive the same basic comprehensive education, and states shouldn’t be able to customize it to their “values.” Nobody is interested in Alabama’s unique take on American History.
Eh, conversely if California decides to teach something progressive should the federal government be able to restrict that? States can also mitigate shitty federal programs.
No, the curriculum should be decided by a panel of experts in their respective fields, and politicians should be absolutely barred from participating in the process at all. They don’t get to manipulate the minds of our youngest generations for their own nefarious objectives.
If California can start altering the Federally mandated curriculum because THEY decided it needed it, then so can some shithole state like Alabama or Mississippi. And besides, who are THEY that are making these educational decisions? I will put my confidence in a well chosen panel of scholarly academic experts before I’ll let 6th grade educated school board member Bubba Redneck decide what my kids need to learn.
No, states will not be allowed to create their own agendas. They will teach the horrors of slavery, the Native American genocide, the Holocaust, Critical Thinking Skills, the dangers of Political Extremism, how to defend Democracy against domestic terrorists, the crimes of the Trump Administrations, etc , and anyone who doesn’t like it, can simply fuck right off. Nobody is asking for their bigoted, ignorant input on what future American citizens need to learn.