USA dept of education dismantling

@hippyjoe1955
So then, the moon has something to do with creating the DOE at the Federal level, right?

@swirlie Just pointing out that since the creation of the DOE American's education has faltered. The average high school graduate today is less educated than the average high school graduate of 1976.

@hippyjoe1955
Oh, I see. I never came to that conclusion after reading your original post and it's relationship with the moon, not even close actually. In fact, it never occurred to me that since the creation of the DOE, the education of American's has faltered.

I DO know that 60% of all high school educated Americans have dropped out of college and only 3% of all Americans who never dropped out of college have acquired a professional Degree like a Masters or PhD from university and only 1% of all Americans have earned a Doctorate from university, but I never knew from any source that the average American high school graduate today is less educated than the average American high school graduate of 1976.

@swirlie My point was that American education in the 50s and 60s was adequate for the US to land a man on the moon. Now? pfffffffttttttt!

@hippyjoe1955
Well actually, what landed the US on the moon were German aerospace scientists who were granted conditional American citizenship at the end of WWII after working for Hitler, but conditional only if they worked at advancing US technology in atomic weaponry, atomic energy and aerospace dominance over the USSR. It was not the American mind that put the USA on the moon nor into space just orbiting the earth, even back in the 1960's.