It has been proposed (not by me) that the current administration feels education is unimportant and undermines it. Discuss?

@ImDone And the second mouse gets the cheese.

@ImDone I, personally, am not a military or police person, and I would be completely unsuited to take down a drug cartel. It is not my job because I am not capable of doing it, nor are 96% of the populace. We can write letters, but that does not mean we will receive any sort of response.

@ImDone Well, Katie and I are ladies. We say "poo"...LOL!!!

@SomeMichGuy You mean about modern education? SOME institutes, mostly colleges, are hotbeds of far left bullying and far left professors who base your grade on whether or not you agree with them. Unfortunately, that is not confined to college. A far left teacher high school teacher told his students that only really stupid people join the armed services, and that if they did that they would probably not go on to college. High schools all over the country let their students out of class so that they could attend anti gun rallies after the high school shootings, but a student who suggested an anti abortion rally day and being let out of class for that issue was not supported by the faculty.

@4meAndyou That's just wrong. I'm not pro-life but it's a legitimate position, one that I respect.

@4meAndyou Ah! ty for the clarification!

@ScrewThisImDone taught to be consumers and a human resource.

@SomeMichGuy Have you seen the ads on tv for online home schooling, now available free in most states? Children who feel more comfortable at home can elect to have all their schooling online. What do you think of that option? (I see their commercial on tv all the time.)

@4meAndyou idk...if it results in people really knowing things, then good. It makes me wonder if it is too passive bc the computer is TV-like. Education is not a passive activity.

I have the same piece of paper from hs as many pol from Mich from about that time...but there is a vast gulf in what I learned and retained vs. what many others did...

...and if it results in socialization only through social media, prob not great.

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@SW-User There was a Washington Post article about that. "But what about education? Many pundits noticed early on that Trump’s supporters were mostly people without college degrees. There were two problems with this line of reasoning, however. First, not having a college degree isn’t a guarantee that someone belongs in the working class (think Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg). And, second, although more than 70 percent of Trump supporters didn’t have college degrees, when we looked at the NBC polling data, we noticed something the pundits left out: during the primaries, about 70 percent of all Republicans didn’t have college degrees, close to the national average (71 percent according to the 2013 Census). Far from being a magnet for the less educated, Trump seemed to have about as many people without college degrees in his camp as we would expect any successful Republican candidate to have."

Going on in that same vein, the article states that most Trump supporters were affluent.

I guess what I am saying is...Google is there, it's free, it can support what you say or knock it down.

@4meAndyou Cross-referencing the bible belt and rural areas to Republican voters tells the tale. Affluence is an unrelated factor.

@SW-User And location IS a factor? You sound like a very prejudiced person.

@softspokenman I think you are correct. BTW I deleted some posts from one of our responders which contained bad language. Good question you proposed!

Thanks. I thought that your post was interesting @4meAndyou. 👍

@softspokenman It was really YOUR post, as you know. If not for your comment to me elsewhere I would not have realized how badly we need to discuss this issue. With some (deleted above) I am not doing too well....LOLOL!!!