“Should we Get Rid of the DoE?”
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Kill it. Kill it with fire.
Out of what DOES go to the schools, the majority goes toward indoctrination and excessive, useless, sports programs.
Sadly you are right. The crappy curriculum my town has to purchase is just a huge waste of money and here in New England, there are nearly no funds for sports anyways. Couple years ago, us parents had to shuttle the kids to each sporting event since the town couldn't afford buses.
My wife was just informed that she will be laid off at the end of this school year. The town got drunk off of the Covid cash and used it to hire more high level administrators rather than provide for the students (seems like the DoE encouraged this).
This summer she will have to battle it out with others to see what fulltime positions with health benefits still exist.
I'm praying that the fraud is exposed quickly so that the states can then receive funds to properly support the students and bring back programs that enrich kids rather than the indoctrination.
States/ people should keep their funds and not send it to Washington.
They would have a lot more money.
That's what I'm hoping for. And if God blesses me with a portion of the potential wealth transfer via GME, DJT, BBBY I'll certainly invest it in programs to help improve the schools. Nearly nobody here in New England has Home Economics, Auto Shop, Culinary Class, Computer Programming, Electronics, Photography / Video production, Child Care, etc.
That's a great plan.
I pay a lot in property tax for my local school district. Federal dollars are mostly to pay democrats. Without our money, liberalism dies.
Excessive useless testing!!!
OF COURSE!!
Never should have been created to begin with!
We need to make "Thanks Jimmy!" the next "Thanks Obama!".
The Going back to Democrats part MUST be rooted out.
Too much bureaucracy = death knell. Software can replace a lot of it, but not all of it. AND the whole thing needs more transparency. And don't give me the values argument. We have seen what can happen when DEI is imposed everywhere.
I would contend that it IS necessary for governments to publish critical skills shortage lists. This, so that schools can create streams of education towards that end. But, let them figure out the how for themselves. You need more STEM? Get on with it. Find the brightest and go. Some people will need hands-on manufacturing skills. Make Technical Intitutes great again. I remember a time when primary school boys wished to become fitters and welders, figured out that they needed to be good at Maths, and wanted soldering irons and model-kits for their birthdays.
^My point is that edumecation departments have been busy trying to take boyhood out of the equation, by making boys wear pink, and doing drama, and disincentivizing tinkering with guns or shooting clubs, for example. And this is detrimental to Militaries, Eletronics, Manufacturing, Science and even Space.
What was the school Elon wanted to make? Oh yeah.
the Texas Institute for Technology and Science.
All that needs to be looked at are the test scores from before the DOE compared to now. It is as plain as the nose on your face.
Every objective measure and KPI has significantly dropped since the inception of the DoE. So yes it needs to die.
What a wonderful world when schools get the resources they need, and they have to hold a bake sale for the bureaucrats...
Or a tv commercial that says “For less than a dollar a day, you can sponsor a formerly rich bureaucrat” while sad Sarah Mclackland music plays in the background
With 3 silver bullets and a wooden stake!
Do the math. Every student is allocated almost $700k per year in funds. Every single student, every child!
None of that makes it to the kids themselves. Erase it all, the DoE is unbelievably corrupt. We should have extraordinary education with this kind of funding, not be the worlds laughing stock of illiteracy and children "left behind"
I don't know where the money went, but we all know where it never goes and thats: Education. Erase the DoE and nothing changes in regards to education - schools remain unfunded. The only change being criminals get defunded too!
THEN create a replacement, completely new, with reasonable funding and public transparent oversight.
THEN DON'T create a replacement
Across college and public school it’s closer to 60 million students, which is a much lower number than 700,000.
College is expensive but even that is not department of education allocation per student expensive!
My local university gets $100 million a year from the Feds. Cut it please!
I see the DOE has let you down. It's actually about $6K/yr/kid. But over 12 years of education that means we spend about $72K/kid.
Before DOE, USA was the best educated country in the world, Now, we are something like #23. They failed. Flush 'em.
We need to get rid of it because there are 2 DOEs - Education and Energy. Either that or rename Energy to N-ergy so it can be the DON.